CHICAGO (WGN) — Gone but not forgotten, the Chicago community came together on Tuesday to celebrate the life and contributions of one of the city’s favorite modern historians, Vanished Chicagoland’s ...

Pete Kastanes, an amateur Chicago historian who ran the Vanished Chicagoland social media pages and hosted a podcast on the topic, died last week. Kastanes' family said in a published obituary that he ...

For Pete Kastanes, nostalgia was like salt — properly sprinkled, it made everything better. He liked to leaf through high school yearbooks and collect old comics. His matchbook collection evoked ...

Gone but not forgotten, the Chicago community came together on Tuesday to celebrate the life and contributions of one of the city's favorite modern historians, Vanished Chicagoland's Pete Kastanes.