William Jennings Bryan was easily one of the great orators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bryan, a newspaper editor, attorney and lecturer, also was a three-time candidate for the U.S.

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 8, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic ...

After years of deficit spending, economic turmoil, and occupation wars abroad, which have all hollowed and dispirited the nation, we are stumbling into the most important presidential election ...