Here’s a look at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 3, according to Tribune archives.
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Weather records (from National Weather Service, Chicago)
- Temperature rise: 71 degrees (1970)
- Low temperature: Minus 5 degrees (1940)
- precipitation: 1.12 inches (1873)
- Snowfall: 4 inch (1893)
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1818: Illinois entered the Union as The twenty-first state.
1919: Architectural engineering company Holabird and Roche He was chosen to design a U-shaped stadium memorial to American soldiers who died in the war. It was later named Soldier Field.
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1927: the first Prep bowlwhich the Tribune called “Chicago’s All-High School Football Championship Series,” was held at Soldier Field in front of 50,000 fans. “Mount Carmel iced the Shores in their first ever interleague game,” the Tribune wrote.
1943: Pizzeria Uno has opened in the Old Town to little fanfare. The restaurant at Ohio Street and Wabash Avenue wasn’t an overnight success. In the early days, bartenders handed out free chip samples to introduce customers to the establishment’s now-popular food.
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The restaurant opened in 1943 as The Pizzeria, became Pizzeria Riccardo soon after, and settled as Pizzeria Uno in 1955, when partners Ike Sewell and Ric Riccardo opened Pizzeria Due in another mansion at Wabash and Ontario Streets. He was the manager of Pizza Duo Luciano “Lou” Malnati.
1957: Seven years Maria Ridolph She was playing in front of her house in Sycamore when she accepted a ride on her back from a stranger named Johnny. Five months later, a couple searching for mushrooms found her body. She was pinned under a log in a forest about 100 miles from her home.
Former Washington State Police Officer Jack McCullough was convicted in DeKalb County in 2012 of murder and child kidnapping and sentenced to life in prison. The new DeKalb County prosecutor found flaws in the case, decided that McCullough’s alibi was strong and concluded that McCullough could not have committed the crime. He asked another judge to overturn the conviction and drop all charges. McCullough sued officers in Illinois and Seattle over allegations of “rampant misconduct.”
1967: the 20TH CENTURY LIMITED – which was once called “the greatest train in the world” – left Chicago’s LaSalle station bound for New York on board Final operation.
In the 1930s, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur produced the Broadway play “The 20th Century Limited,” and Alfred Hitchcock later filmed “North by Northwest” on a train. Lucius Beebe made the train the subject of a book, and Norman Rockwell once painted his restaurant on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
2009: Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith, and Patrick Kane He signed a contract extension with the Chicago Blackhawks.
The trio won Stanley Cups with the Hawks in 2010, 2013 and 2015.
2018: The Chicago Bulls fired head coach Fred Hoiberg, who compiled a 115-155 record with one first-round exit.
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