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Fifty years ago today, Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson met in a Chicago ring for the heavyweight championship of the world. The city is still trying to live down that fight.

How the City of Chicago spent a half-century trying to get people to accept an unpopular street name.

How well did you find your way around 1948 Chicago? Today we reveal the answer to yesterday's mystery photo.

How well could you find your way around 1948 Chicago? This 1948 photo was taken on the Northwest Side.

On this date in 1889, social worker Jane Addams moved into the West Side slums — and began to change the world.

In 1934 Chicago scored another superlative with the dedication of the largest high school anywhere.

According to the 1958 plan, the median of the Eisenhower Expressway was to have space for four tracks. Today the median strip still has only two tracks — and lots of empty space.