The devoted journalists at the Chicago Tribune have been reporting the
city's news for 170 years. As a result, the paper has amassed an
inimitable, as-it-happened history of its hometown, a city first
incorporated in 1837 that rapidly grew to become the third-largest city
in the United States. Since 2011, the Chicago Tribune has been mining
its vast archive of photos and stories for its weekly feature Chicago
Flashback, which deals with the significant people and events that have
shaped the city's history and culture from the paper's founding in 1847
to the present day.
Now the editors of the Tribune have carefully collected the best, most
interesting Chicago Flashback features into a single coffee-table
volume. Each story is accompanied by at least one black-and-white image
from the paper's fabled photo vault located deep below Michigan Avenue's
famed Tribune Tower. Chicago Flashback offers readers a unique
perspective on the city's long and colorful history.