Here is a take a look at what occurred within the Chicago space on February 15, in response to the stands of Tribune.
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Meteorological data (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 69 levels (1954)
- Low temperature: Less 9 levels (1905)
- Precipitation: 0.78 inches (1954)
- Snowfall: 6.1 inches (2021)
Vintage Chicago Tribune: 4 Illinois athletes who gained gold on the Winter Olympics
1932: Billy Fiske, bred in Chicago, piloted American males of their second Olympic gold medal in Bobs throughout the winter video games in Lake Placid, New York.
FISKE has lived a brief however extraordinary life. Born in a wealthy banking household in Chicago in 1911 – which may Take his roots at Mayflower – was instructed abroad During his adolescence.
It is there that he was chosen-on the age of 16-like driver for the Bob crew with 5 males within the United States on the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The crew won gold.
1933: The mayor of Chicago Anton Cermak was hit by a Assassin’s bullet Presumably destined for the elected president Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami; He died on March sixth.
Once within the hospital, in response to studies, Cermak has pronounced the engraved line on his grave. Speaking with FDR, Cermak presumably stated: “I’m glad I used to be as an alternative of you.” The tribune reported the quote with out attributing it to a witness and a lot of the students doubt that it has ever been stated.
1964: Second base of Chicago Cubs Star Ken Hubbs He was killed when the small airplane that pilot crashed shortly after take -off to attempt, in Utah. Dennis Doyle, buddy of the previous Rookie of the 12 months MLB, additionally died within the accident.
1990: “Space Chicken “ Donated to the Lincoln Park zoo. Out of 67 billion hen eggs laid within the United States the earlier 12 months, 32 had been despatched to orbit on board the invention of the house shuttle. One of the surviving embryonic spatial vacationers then a 10-month white hen of 10 kilos named “Discovery”-was donated by Purdue University to the hen coolen of the Fattoria di Lincoln Park.
2023: The Chicago Bears acquired the previous Arlington Park website.
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