Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 10, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Front page flashback: Feb. 11, 1916
1916: A few hundred of the city’s most prominent people gathered at the stately University Club at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Monroe Street for a dinner welcoming the new Catholic archbishop, George Mundelein.
All were marked for assassination by an anarchist cook named Jean Crones, who spiked the soup stock with arsenic. When dinner was served, some of the highest flyers of Chicago were laid low, falling to the floor, groaning in agony and vomiting. But none died.
Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 63 degrees (1876)
- Low temperature: Minus 18 degrees (1899)
- Precipitation: 0.96 inches (1960)
- Snowfall: 9.7 inches (1981)
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1869: The Woman Suffrage Convention — the first of its kind in Chicago — was held at Library Hall.
1916: Deerfield-Shields High School senior Marian Lambert was found dead in Helm’s Woods near a train station in Lake Forest.
William Orpet was tried for murder but was found not guilty by jury after the substance found that killed Lambert was potassium cyanide, not liquid cyanide.
1969: The Chicago Housing Authority practiced racial segregation by locating most of its public housing in poor neighborhoods, a federal judge ruled in a suit brought by the ACLU three years prior.
Judge Richard B. Austin held that the CHA board and staff had good intentions, but they have been the victims of a state law giving the City Council final approval on the selection of public housing sites, the Tribune reported.
1980: Northwestern, coached by 27-year-old Mary DiStanislao, won its second straight Big Ten women’s basketball tournament, beating Minnesota 86-72 in the title game at Wisconsin.
1985: Michael Jordan made his NBA All-Star Game debut. Controversy arose with talk of a “freeze out” supposedly led by Isiah Thomas to keep the ball away from the popular rookie. Thomas later denied this was intentional. Jordan shot 2 for 9, scoring seven points in 22 minutes.
1992: Speedskater Bonnie Blair won her second gold medal in her second consecutive Olympics. She did it by completing the 500 meters in 40.33 seconds at Albertville, France.
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Blair became one of the most decorated U.S. women in Winter Olympics history. She competed in four Olympics and won five gold and one bronze speedskating medals between 1988 and 1994. The three-time World Sprint Champion also won 19 world sprint medals.
2007: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, which was the site of Abraham Lincoln’s “House Divided” speech on June 16, 1858.
Obama urged Americans who hear “destiny calling” to join him “in the unfinished business of perfecting our union.” About 15,000 people braved frigid temperatures to watch Obama speak before he departed to campaign in Iowa.
He defeated Republican candidate John McCain in the Nov. 4, 2008, election and became the nation’s 44th president.
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