Rick Kogan, who attended the city’s first St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 1956, reflects on seven decades of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Chicago.

The Tri-State Tornado barreled across more than 200 miles, decimating entire towns in and leaving thousands homeless on March 18, 1925.

Even 100 years later, the Tri-State tornado is widely considered America's worst tornado. It killed almost 700 in an era ...

The Victorian home of Col. Friend Rutherford, an Abraham Lincoln associate, was demolished in the 1990s.

A deadly tornado outbreak has left at least 17 people dead and numerous others injured as a powerful storm system carves a destructive path across multiple states, now heading toward the East ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 18, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National ...

From Logan School's top floor, 11-year-old Othella Silvey easily should have been able to see her house — it was less than two blocks away. But after a monstrous tornado ripped through the Illinois ...

Tornadoes and severe storms struck Southeast Missouri, killing one in Butler County. An EF3 tornado caused significant damage ...

Areas will continue to clean up for some time after the latest line of storms moved through Southeast Missouri and into ...

Cleanup efforts are underway in Missouri and Illinois following storm damage, with Neoga, Illinois, experiencing significant ...

The National Weather Service confirmed that a powerful EF2 tornado ripped through St. Clair and Clinton counties in Illinois.

March 18, 1925, began like any other Wednesday in the Heartland but it didn’t stay normal for long as worst tornado in US ...