Before they were soldiers, they were family. Before they were legends, they were heroes. Before there was a nation, there was a fight for freedom.

Rick Kogan presents a new Almanac each week on the Chicago Live! stage. Watch this week’s Almanac and then test your Chicago history knowledge with our weekly quiz. Find more historical photos and ...

Here is the story of how a 1916 silent film made in Chicago starring William Gillette, the most renowned Sherlock Holmes interpreter of his day, came to be lost for nearly a century. And then, ...