Alison Martin
Audience engagement specialist
Alison Martin is an audience engagement specialist at the Chicago Sun-Times.
The famed aviator, born this week on July 24, 1897, visited Chicago on July 19, 1928. Here’s how the Windy City welcomed her.
On July 21, 1919, a Goodyear blimp ferrying people between Comiskey Park and the White City Amusement Park caught fire and crashed. Here’s how the Chicago Daily News covered it.
The Chicago native, born July 10, 1939, found early success as a gospel singer in her family’s band. So what was a gospel singer doing playing the Vic?
John Augustus Tolton, who died this week on July 9, 1897, became the first Black priest ordained by the Catholic Church in 1886.
Less than a year after the Stonewall Riots on June 28, 1969, the group Gay Liberation won recognition as a campus organization at the University of Chicago.
While studying at the University of Chicago in 1935, Dunham, born this week on June 22, 1909, won a fellowship to research native dances in Haiti and the West Indies.
On June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Host Alison Victoria designs a $1.5 million home from the ground up on the season 3 finale.
On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot in a California hotel. The Chicago Daily News published after the shooting but before the senator’s death. Here’s a look at that coverage.