According to the Tribune’s archives, there is a look at what happened in the Chicago region on 7 February.
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Weather Cord (From National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 59 degrees (1925)
- low temperature: Minus 10 degrees (1875)
- Reporting: 1.34 inch (1881)
- Snowfall: 8.6 inch (1933)
1865: Gov Richard J. Olsby signed a bill, canceling Illinois’s 1853 “Black Law”, which prevented black people from entering the state.
1937: Su-Lin, the first panda brought to the US to stay in captivity, reached the Brookfield zoo.
The next year the animal died of pneumonia. This is now part of the taxedarmi collection of the Field Museum.
1968: Nine people, including four firefighters, were killed, when a series of late afternoon blasts exploded through the common offices of the Micelberry Food Products Company to the south. The fire began when a gasoline tanker was doing a delivery in the street behind the truck plant. The gas flowed through a gate and in the basement, where the boiler of the building was located.
1969: In the Kinetic Playground, LED Zepelin’s Chicago began two months after its first American gig and three weeks after its first US show, as a only headlineer, which took place in all places, Iowa City, Iowa, when count stale After the band stepped. Canceled its date in the students’ union.
The performance of February 2 in the Kinetic Playground marked the first of the eight bands played alone in 1969, which is 4812 N. Clarke was in the middle of a lineup in the middle of Saint Sandwich. Positive reviews from Tribune in your “The Sound” column, branded “music and radio: for young listeners.”
1987: Michael Jordan enhanced its first part of the win-to-back dunk-contact win at the NBA All-Star Weekend in Seattle.
1994: Jordan signed a minor deal with Chicago White Sox, four months after retiring from professional basketball.