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 ...

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.

At the 1896 Democratic Nationl Convention in Chicago, William Jennings Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party. He was an unlikely... At the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, ...

Before Woodrow Wilson became the standard bearer for the Democratic Party, that honor belonged to William Jennings Bryan, known both as "the Great Commoner" and the "Boy Orator of the Platte." Bryan's ...