Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 27, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 62 degrees (1916)
- Low temperature: Minus 10 degrees (1955)
- Precipitation: 0.74 inches (1967)
- Snowfall: 6.6 inches (1967)
1966: The city was granted an NBA franchise — the Chicago Bulls.
Also in 1966: In a meeting with Chicago police Superintendent O.W. Wilson, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lays out his plan — 1) educating people about slum conditions; 2) organizing slum dwellers into a union to force landlords to comply with demands or face the risk of rent strikes; and 3) mobilizing tenants of rundown homes into an army of nonviolent demonstrations — and says he is willing to risk a jail sentence, but would aim to “persuade rather than to create bitterness.”
1982: The Chicago Cubs traded Ivan DeJesus to the Philadelphia Phillies for “aging but feisty veteran” Larry Bowa and “an untested minor leaguer” Ryne Sandberg.
2017: Chicago immigration reform advocates and Muslim leaders denounced President Donald Trump’s executive order to temporarily block refugees coming to the U.S. while the government reviewed screening processes, calling it an effective ban on Muslims in America.
In issuing the order, which called for a four-month halt on all refugee admissions, an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees and a temporary moratorium on immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries with terrorism concerns, Trump said he sought to protect the nation from terrorist attacks. He called for a review of all screening procedures for those seeking immigrant visas to the U.S.
Timeline: Chicago’s more than 40-year history as a sanctuary city
2021: Chicago City Council votes to give landmark status to the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley House in the West Woodlawn neighborhood, honoring the slain 14-year-old whose murder would help spark the Civil Rights Movement.
Column: An exhibition and a book revisit the life and death of Emmett Till
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