On this day 110 years ago, a ship in the Chicago River between LaSalle Drive and Clark Street was loaded with more than 2,500 passengers — many of them Western Electric Co. employees and their ...
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 maritime ...
CHICAGO (AP) | It was intended as a festive day out for Western Electric Co. workers and their families — an excursion across Lake Michigan from Chicago to a park in Michigan City, Indiana. It ended ...