The Bears have won nine championships in their 99-year history. Luckman was the quarterback for four of them, in 1940, 1941, ...

The S.S. Eastland had been known as the “Greyhound of the Great Lakes.” The vessel, however, was built to serve as a freighter — not an excursion vessel. Its capsizing killed 844 people, making ...

The fate of the SS Eastland - and the hundreds of people who lost their lives that day in 1915 - has fallen out of our collective consciousness. That's odd, considering it's one of the worst ...

The Eastland Disaster Took Over 800 Lives The SS Eastland had been hired to ferry a large group of workers for Western Electric to their annual employee picnic in Michigan City, Indiana. But they ...

A commemoration event Wednesday marked 109 years since the Eastland ship disaster. It was in 1915 that the Eastland sank in the Chicago River, killing 844 passengers and crew.

The year is 1915, and thousands of Western Electric factory workers, most of whom are eastern-European immigrants, board the SS Eastland on the Chicago River to sail to neighboring Michigan City ...

The 20-year-old had a summer job with Western Electric, and on Saturday, July 24, 1915, he planned to join his coworkers aboard the SS Eastland to cross Lake Michigan for the telephone company’s ...

The SS Eastland - one of five ships chartered for the company outing - was preparing to leave a dock in the Chicago River on July 24, 1915, with more than 2,500 passengers and crew aboard when ...