Today in Chicago History: Mayor Jane Byrne moves into Cabrini-Green
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 31, according to the Tribune's archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
High temperature: 87 degrees (1981)
Low temperature: 12 degrees (1969)
Precipitation: 3.12 inches (1929)
Snowfall: 4.8 inches (1926)
1995: Sears shareholders approved a plan to spin off Allstate, then the country's second-largest insurance company.
Launched in 1931 to provide mail-order car insurance, Northbrook-based Allstate Insurance Co. was founded as a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears. In choosing a name for the new business, managers borrowed the trademark of a Sears product, Allstate Automobile Tire.
1981: At 8:30 p.m., a limousine carrying Mayor Jane Byrne from a $150-a-plate dinner in the Conrad Hilton hotel pulled up to the Cabrini-Green housing development. The mayor, her husband and bodyguards rushed quickly through the front door and, avoiding the elevator, walked up four flights of stairs to apartment #416.
Byrne moved into the Cabrini-Green apartment and stayed for 25 days.
2018: No. 11 Loyola lost to Michigan 69-57 in the Final Four.
After Oregon State eliminated Loyola from the NCAA Tournament in 2021, Loyola coach Porter Moser left for Oklahoma.
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