Every Friday starting this week, the barriers at each end of Riverside Drive will go up at 3 p.m. and be taken down at 6 a.m.

2015 will be a year of remembering the Eastland disaster, which killed more than 800 people on the Chicago River near Clark Street in 1915. Latest U.S.

The loss of some 1,500 souls when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912 has been memorialized, if that’s the right word, with a century of narrative re-creation, a hit movie, countless documentaries, a ...

The ship listed, first toward the wharf, then to the other side, before finally capsizing. The deadliest tragedy in Chicago history, the Eastland rollover seemed to unfold almost in slow motion.

CHICAGO -- Film clips have surfaced of a 1915 disaster that left 844 people dead when a ship headed to a company picnic capsized in the Chicago River.. New footage sheds light on "Eastland ...

CHICAGO — In two weeks, Chicago will commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the Eastland Disaster. 2500 people boarded the Eastland on July 24th, 1915 as part of the Western Electric company ...

Film clips have surfaced of a 1915 disaster that left 844 people dead when a ship headed to a company picnic capsized in the Chicago River. The first-known footage of the Eastland disaster was ...

Even with the presence of a large plaque at LaSalle and Wacker commemorating the S.S. Eastland disaster of 1915, it’s likely many of the thousands of Chicagoans and tourists hustling across the ...

A graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago came across the first-known film footage of the Eastland disaster while doing online research. wls CHICAGO (WLS) -- Historians plan ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Film clips have surfaced of a 1915 disaster that left 844 people dead when a ship headed to a company picnic capsized in the Chicago River. The first-known footage of the Eastland ...

Attention, history lovers: The Bloomington Public Library announces the return of its citywide reading program, with this year's focus on the Eastland Disaster of 1915.