Extra! Extra! The Eastland Stories Marooned in 1915

Send us Fan Mail This week, I explored the July 26, 1915 edition of the Waukegan Daily Sun, a newspaper packed with Eastland stories that have sat there for more than a century. As is often the case, the people in those articles are mostly absent from today’s Eastland history accounts. Then, one story turned into a newspaper version of Where’s Waldo? (Where’s Wally?), its trail veering off into the lives of a completely different family. Next, we slip behind the curtain of a 1915 newsroom. Re...