Wallace Rice, poet and author who designed the official Chicago flag, explains to Jimmy Malles, 10, left, and Frank Pfieffer, 12, the meaning of the emblem, circa 1938. (Chicago Tribune historical ...

The new flag, designed by a then-high school student in the Chicago suburbs, features a stylized horizontal Y-shape reminiscent of the Chicago municipal symbol. In the crook of the Y are six red seven ...

CHICAGO — Patriotism is cool at this ... a counterweight to former president Donald Trump’s use of the flag as a partisan symbol. As delegates made their way to the convention floor at the ...

CHICAGO (WBBM ... raised an American flag upside down—a universal symbol of a state of emergency. “For many years, we have held it as a sacred piece of what it meant to America, but ...

That form of resistance is on display outside the church as the group, which included more than a dozen veterans, raised an ...