Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 2, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 91 degrees (1971)
- Low temperature: 28 degrees (1974)
- Precipitation: 1.76 inches (2019)
- Snowfall: None
1950: Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” comic strip appeared in newspapers for the first time. The Tribune was one of seven that carried it.
It starred a character named Charlie Brown, named after an art school colleague of Schulz.
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Snoopy, inspired by a dog Schulz had as a child–“the smartest and most uncontrollable dog that I have ever seen,” he said–made his first appearance two days later. Linus joined the gang in 1952, though his famous security blanket did not appear until 1954.
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1960: The Cardinals played their first home game in St. Louis after 62 years in Chicago. The football team was founded in in 1898 as the Morgan Athletic Club in Chicago and is the oldest continuously run American pro football team.
1995: The Chicago Bulls traded center Will Perdue to San Antonio for 2-time NBA defensive player of the year Dennis Rodman.
2009: Chicago’s candidacy to host the 2016 Summer Olympics landed with a thud. The city was eliminated in the first round of voting.
2018: Kierra Coles, a 26-year-old Chicago letter carrier, went missing near her apartment at 81st Street and Vernon Avenue in Chatham. At the time of her disappearance, Coles was three months pregnant with her first child. Her mother, Karen Phillips, reported Coles missing after she went two days without hearing from her daughter, with whom she ordinarily talked every day.
Coles is still missing.
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