Kori Rumore

The Missouri School of Journalism graduate uses data and archival materials to report stories. Rumore curates the weekly "Vintage Chicago Tribune" newsletter and wrote "He Had It Coming: Four Murderous Women and the Reporter Who Immortalized Their Stories" with Tribune photo editor Marianne Mather, a fellow Des Plaines native.

People make their way through the snow Nov. 26, 2023, in Logan Square.

Chicago weather: How our 2024-25 seasonal snowfall compares with previous years

May 5, 2025 at 9:49 a.m.

Snow seasons in Chicago are tracked from July through the following June. The area normally can expect 38.4 inches.

Police investigate the scene where two women were fatally shot and another critically wounded in an alley near the 7700 block of South Oglesby Avenue in Chicago on Jan. 28, 2025. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune)

Chicago homicides in 2025: 116 people slain. Here’s how that compares with previous years.

May 5, 2025 at 9:42 a.m.

Chicago homicide data, which is updated on this page weekly, is through April 30, 2025.

Outside the original Chicago Defender building in Chicago, newspaper founder Robert Sengstacke Abbott stands amid bundles of donations to be given out as charitable gifts, circa 1910s. (Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

Today in Chicago History: Chicago Defender — ‘the world’s greatest weekly’ — founded by Robert Sengstacke Abbott

May 5, 2025 at 12:18 p.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 5, according to the Tribune's archives.

Al Capone in 1932 in a Pullman railroad car on his way to prison in Atlanta after a prolonged court battle. At right is U.S. Marshal H.C.W. Laubenheimer, who accompanied Capone. (Chicago Tribune archive)

Today in Chicago History: Al Capone sent to prison, ‘I’ve got to do it, that’s all’

May 4, 2025 at 8:04 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 4, according to the Tribune's archives.

An aerial view of the topping out of the Sears Tower on May 3, 1973, in Chicago. (James O’Leary/Chicago Tribune)

Today in Chicago History: Sears Tower becomes the world’s tallest building

May 3, 2025 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 3, according to the Tribune's archives.

As with the 1894 opening at the Palace of Fine Arts in Jackson Park, crowds line up when the Field Museum opens in its Grant Park location on May 2, 1921. (Field Museum)

Today in Chicago History: 8,000 people attend opening of Field Museum

May 2, 2025 at 9:59 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 2, according to the Tribune's archives.

Construction of the State of Illinois Center progresses in August 1982. (Karen Engstrom/Chicago Tribune)

Vintage Chicago Tribune: The 40-year saga of State of Illinois Center

May 1, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.

The center, designed to house thousands of government workers from dozens of agencies, was initially touted as, "A building for the year 2000." Not long after the dawn of the...

A crowd marches in a peaceful May Day parade in Chicago's Loop toward Grant Park on May 1, 1934. According to the Tribune, police estimated the number of marchers at 4,000, but marchers estimated 25,000. Among the paraders, were Joseph Weber, secretary of the Trade Union Unity League, William Gebert, communist organizer, and Nina Spies, widow of August Spies, who was hanged for his role in the Haymarket Riot of 1886. The leaders of the demonstration said the parade represented "a fight against war and fascism and for workers' unemployment insurance legislation." (Chicago Tribune historical photo)

Today in Chicago History: ‘May Day’ born after workers take to the streets to demand an eight-hour workday

May 5, 2025 at 10:57 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 1, according to the Tribune's archives.

Vietnamese try to scale the high U.S. Embassy wall in desperate attempts to get aboard the evacuation flights in Saigon in 1975. (AP)

Today in Chicago History: Tribune reporters among last American journalists to leave Vietnam after Saigon falls

April 30, 2025 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 30, according to the Tribune's archives.

Cubs manager Lee Elia reflects on the day’s events after an evening news conference in Cubs general manager Dallas Green’s office apologizing for his outburst. (Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune)

Today in Chicago History: Cubs manager Lee Elia delivers epic, expletive-laden rant

April 29, 2025 at 4:00 a.m.

Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 29, according to the Tribune's archives.

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