Today in Chicago History: Locals drink up as Prohibition ends
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
High temperature: 84 degrees (1929)
Low temperature: 15 degrees (1982)
Precipitation: 1.13 inches (1938)
Snowfall: 9 inches (1938)
1915: Oscar Stanton De Priest was elected Chicago's first Black alderman.
Vintage Chicago Tribune: 24 incredible Black Chicagoans
Born in Alabama to former slaves, De Priest then became the first Black person from a Northern state to sit in Congress — as its sole Black member for three terms.
1917: The United States entered World War I.
Vintage: 'The Great War' through the lens of the Chicago Tribune
A full-page appeal in the Tribune asked volunteers to apply for the Illinois cavalry and artillery.
1933: Chicagoans drank up as 3.2% beer became legal after 13 years of Prohibition.
1972: Two cars of a four-car CTA 'L' train plunged from the elevated structure at 40th Street and Wabash Avenue on the South Side, injuring 46 people.
A mangled section of track rose perpendicularly into the air after the track and parts of the train's undercarriage were strewn along 40th Street.
2014: Sears closed its State Street store.
Sears timeline: Rise, fall and restructuring of a Chicago icon over 130 years
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