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Chicago Tribune
15-07-2025
- General
- Chicago Tribune
Today in Chicago History: Italian Gen. Italo Barbo leads 24 seaplanes in splash down at Navy Pier
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 15, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) 1850: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini — the first American saint — was born in Italy. The youngest of 13 children of Italian farmers, she dreamed of serving as a missionary. Her poor health, however, meant she was rejected by several orders. That's why Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini — who was born 175 years ago this month — founded her own, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Leo XIII encouraged Cabrini to expand her mission to the United States. Vintage Chicago Tribune: Mother Cabrini's Chicago milestones on her path to sainthood When she arrived in America, Cabrini didn't speak English and was told by the archbishop of New York that her trip was a mistake. Yet Cabrini persisted and even became a naturalized citizen in 1909. Before her death in Chicago at age 67, Cabrini founded 67 schools, orphanages, hospitals, convents and places of worship in North and South America. Her order has a presence today on six continents and Cabrini is revered by the faithful as patron saint of immigrants. 1875: Balloonist Washington Donaldson and his passenger, newspaper reporter Newton Grimwood, disappeared during an attempt to cross Lake Michigan in a balloon. What became of them? 'Unless there shall arrive a speedy and convincing denial, it can be taken as the story of their doom,' the Tribune reported two days later. 1933: Twenty-four seaplanes, led by Italian Gen. Italo Balbo, landed on Lake Michigan near Chicago's Navy Pier for the Century of Progress exposition. 'Seagulls flew ahead of the planes as if to show them how to do it,' wrote a Tribune reporter who watched them pass over the site of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair and the Loop. 'One large gull circled and banked and soared near the planes as they came down lower and lower, facing North and heading for the shelter of the breakwater.' 2018: Sears closed its last store in Chicago. The Six Corners store, on the edge of Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood, shut its doors for the last time two months shy of its 80th anniversary. Sears timeline: Rise, fall and restructuring of a Chicago icon over 130 yearsSubscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago's past.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Today in Chicago History: Century of Progress — the second World's Fair hosted by the city — opens
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 27, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) High temperature: 97 degrees (2018) Low temperature: 33 degrees (1992) Precipitation: 1.92 inches (2019) Snowfall: Trace (2001) 1933: Century of Progress — the city's second world's fair — opened in Chicago. 1968: Chicago Bears owner George Halas, 73, announced his retirement as the team's head coach. Halas finished with a regular-season record of 318-148-31 in 40 seasons. Ben Johnson is the 19th Chicago Bears head coach. Here's a look at how past coaches fared — and why they left. Halas named Jim Dooley, a longtime assistant and former player, to replace him. Halas' 1968 send-off of 'Good luck, kid' to his successor immediately turned to bad luck and haunted Dooley through season records of 7-7, 1-13, 6-8 and 6-8. Enthusiastic and innovative, a true 'football man,' Dooley presided over four of the darkest and worst years in Bears history. 1993: The $618 million International Terminal was unveiled at O'Hare International Airport. The 1.2 million-square-foot, glass-and-steel building with dramatic, curving roof and skylights was completed following more than two years of construction. This facility, officially named Terminal 5, included 21 gates, 156 ticket counters and was estimated to handle 4 million passengers annually. It was the last project of a $2 billion O'Hare revitalization and expansion program begun a decade earlier. The terminal was expanded in 2023. 2012: Paul Konerko hit a tie-breaking three-run home run — his 400th with the Chicago White Sox — in a 12-6 win over the Cleveland Indians. The offensive outburst gave the Sox nine or more runs in four consecutive games. The White Sox last accomplished that feat June 27-30, 1938. Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago's past. Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at krumore@ and mmather@
Chicago Tribune
27-05-2025
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
Today in Chicago History: Century of Progress — the second World's Fair hosted by the city — opens
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 27, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) 1933: Century of Progress — the city's second world's fair — opened in Chicago. 1968: Chicago Bears owner George Halas, 73, announced his retirement as the team's head coach. Halas finished with a regular-season record of 318-148-31 in 40 seasons. Ben Johnson is the 19th Chicago Bears head coach. Here's a look at how past coaches fared — and why they named Jim Dooley, a longtime assistant and former player, to replace him. Halas' 1968 send-off of 'Good luck, kid' to his successor immediately turned to bad luck and haunted Dooley through season records of 7-7, 1-13, 6-8 and 6-8. Enthusiastic and innovative, a true 'football man,' Dooley presided over four of the darkest and worst years in Bears history. 1993: The $618 million International Terminal was unveiled at O'Hare International Airport. The 1.2 million-square-foot, glass-and-steel building with dramatic, curving roof and skylights was completed following more than two years of construction. This facility, officially named Terminal 5, included 21 gates, 156 ticket counters and was estimated to handle 4 million passengers annually. It was the last project of a $2 billion O'Hare revitalization and expansion program begun a decade earlier. The terminal was expanded in 2023. 2012: Paul Konerko hit a tie-breaking three-run home run — his 400th with the Chicago White Sox — in a 12-6 win over the Cleveland Indians. The offensive outburst gave the Sox nine or more runs in four consecutive games. The White Sox last accomplished that feat June 27-30, 1938. Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago's past.
Yahoo
24-02-2025
- Yahoo
Today in Chicago History: ‘Great is Chicago. It gets the World's Fair.'
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 24, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) High temperature: 64 degrees (1930) Low temperature: Minus 11 degrees (1873) Precipitation: 1.11 inches (2001) Snowfall: 6.5 inches (1965) 1890: 'Great is Chicago. It gets the World's Fair.' The city was awarded the event by the U.S. House of Representatives on the eighth ballot. Vintage Chicago Tribune: World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 and Century of Progress, 1933-1934 The Senate concurred on April 21, 1890. President Benjamin Harrison signed it into law on April 25, 1890. The World's Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago on May 1, 1893. 1993: A secret Chicago police internal report surfaced cataloging more than 50 instances of 'methodical' and 'systematic' torture by Jon Burge and his subordinates. Stories of the violence committed under Burge — including beatings, electric shock, suffocation with typewriter covers and games of Russian roulette — proved to have a long reach. Although most of Burge's alleged misconduct took place in the 1970s and '80s, his accusers played a fundamental role in former Gov. George Ryan's decision to vacate Illinois' death row in 2000 and declare a moratorium on capital punishment in the state. Jon Burge and Chicago's legacy of police torture Burge himself never was charged directly in any of the torture allegations, though he was fired from the Chicago Police Department in 1993. Years later, in 2010, he was convicted of lying to federal authorities about his conduct and sentenced to prison. He was released in 2014 and returned to his waterfront home south of Tampa. Burge died in Florida in 2018. Lawsuits from Burge's victims have cost taxpayers many millions in settlements and judgments, much of it paid out of city coffers. 2001: The XFL's Chicago Enforcers played their first home game at Soldier Field — and lost 13-0 to the New York/New Jersey Hitmen. The league folded after one season. Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago's past. Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at krumore@ and mmather@
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Yahoo
Today in Chicago History: 6 inmates escape Cook County Jail
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 11, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) High temperature: 70 degrees (1999) Low temperature: Minus 14 degrees (1885) Precipitation: 0.83 inches (2009) Snowfall: 8.3 inches (1956) Vintage Chicago Tribune: World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 and Century of Progress, 1933-1934 1891: Ground was broken in Jackson Park for construction of buildings for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. 1966: Martin Luther King Jr. threatened boycotts against local industries (starting with bread, milk, soup and soft drink companies) — an extension of his Operation Breadbasket campaign in Atlanta — who refused to hire Black workers. Vintage Chicago Tribune: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leads 'the first significant freedom movement in the North' Jesse Jackson headed the initiative and became its national director in 1967. 2006: Six inmates — two charged with murder — escaped from Cook County Jail. After plotting the scheme for months, six men — Tyrone Everhart of Markham; and Francisco Romero, Arnold Joyner, Michael McIntosh, Eric Bernard and David Earnest, all of Chicago — made their move. The men, who set a fire and overpowered at least two guards, allegedly had the assistance of at least one guard in the Special Incarceration Unit, where inmates with discipline problems spend 23 hours a day in their cells. All were recaptured in a little more than 24 hours. The incident occurred only hours after the capture of another inmate, Warren C. Mathis, who escaped from the jail the previous day. Mathis rode out of jail aboard a truck, which contained inmates' dirty laundry. Vintage Chicago Tribune: Jailbreak!!! Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago's past. Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at krumore@ and mmather@
