Watch as many documentaries as I do, and you’re bound to see the Chicago White Sox’s notorious Disco Demolition Night come up in a wide variety of contexts. Sometimes the 1979 fiasco is used as a case ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rioters at Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago in 1979. - Credit: Ed Wagner Jr./Chicago Tribune/Tribune News ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 12, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Even before the trouble between games ...

There’s no consensus about what was behind the violence at the Disco Demolition Night at the Chicago White Sox field in 1979. Were the thousands of people—mostly White—who stormed the field after ...

American Experience’s “The War on Disco” airs at 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. It will also stream on the PBS app. Rushmore DeNooyer always wanted to work with the PBS series ...

The fine folks over at South Side Sox direct our attention toward a nice time-waster on a slow offseason Monday: Diane Alexander White's gallery of 35 photos taken in the hours before the Chicago's ...

Chicago house pioneer Vince Lawrence recalls witnessing Disco Demolition Night as a teenager, and later recognizing the racist undertones of the infamous incident, in a new clip from the fascinating ...