A gold pocket watch connects a Lake Michigan beach town to an English port town. It’s a homecoming 165 years in the making, weaving invisible strings between a British parliament member, a deadly ...
When the Lady Elgin sank on Lake Michigan in 1860, British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram was lost to the deep, but 165 years later his pocket watch has returned home. The steamship quickly ...
Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 8, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Replica of the Lady Elgin steamship on ...
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