Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 30, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

Bessie Coleman Drive at O’Hare International Airport ... invitation to speak with Craig Stebic and swim with him and his kids at the Stebics’ backyard pool. Lisa Stebic has not been found.

On April 23, 1926, Bessie Coleman made the last payment on her new ... and she encouraged her kids to learn to read. The brightest was Bessie, who taught herself with borrowed books and second ...

Energies were high and mostly peaceful as the crowd reached its peak of about 225 attendees, even as an occasional ...

Art in Wilder Park features a preview of “Crossings,” a solo exhibition of sculptures by acclaimed Chicago artist Bernard ...

Entertainment for children is planned at the Kids Court, where nine organizations ... “The airplane was inspired by Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman to obtain a pilot’s license ...

Hopson also has written a book about her inspiration to fly — aviatrix Bessie Coleman ... about that,” Peterson said. “The kids still need things to get there (to college) and, a lot ...

Bridgerton star Bessie Carter has admitted that it's been a "dream" of hers to work alongside her mother Imelda Staunton. The mother and daughter duo are to star opposite one another in a West End ...

The red shelf is special. Sitting on the shelf from Angelou’s library is a Barbie of Bessie Coleman, the first African American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot’s license.