Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 3, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 81 degrees (1956)
- Low temperature: 17 degrees (1987)
- Precipitation: 0.93 inches (1974)
- Snowfall: 2.7 inches (1984)
1923: Wiliam “Decent” Dever — a “wet” Democrat — was elected mayor on the reform ticket, in an attempt to clean up the rampant vice in Chicago.
Dever was voted out four years later.
But his name remains imprinted on a water crib in Lake Michigan.
1973: Motorola executive Martin Cooper made the very first cellphone call. And though it took place in New York City, its guts and inspiration were all Chicago.
1996: “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski (a Chicago-area native) was arrested at his remote Montana cabin.
1998: “Let ’em hear you in heaven.” Dutchie Caray — the widow of Cubs TV play-by-play announcer Harry Caray — led the seventh-inning stretch during Opening Day at Wrigley Field. Organist Gary Pressey launched into “Amazing Grace” as balloons were released from the bleachers in Caray’s honor.
2007: Shortly after lunchtime, a docile coyote nonchalantly wandered through the propped-open door of a Quiznos submarine sandwich shop at 37 E. Adams St. in downtown Chicago and plopped down in front of the soda cooler.
Officials picked up the year-old male about an hour after it entered the restaurant. The animal ate nothing and no one was harmed.
The coyote was released later in Barrington Hills on 9 acres of private property, where rabbits and mice — not submarine sandwiches and chips — would be his daily fare.
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