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1933: An estimated 125,000 people attended 'The Romance of a People' Jewish pageant. It was one of many cultural or religious events Soldier Field hosted during its early years.
1999: Northwestern University men's basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong died after being shot while walking with his two young children in Skokie. The lone gunman, white supremacist Benjamin Smith, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a short police chase in southern Illinois. Smith was wanted in a spree of apparent hate crimes across Illinois and Indiana.
2015: The Grateful Dead returned to Soldier Field for the first time since Jerry Garcia's death.
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