Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 28, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Front page flashback: April 29, 1955
1955: Eight people — including a Chicago fire captain — were killed and 20 others injured in a fire at the Green Mill hotel at 518 N. Green St. in Chicago. Officials believed the fire was intentionally set.
Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 86 degrees (1915)
- Low temperature: 28 degrees (1992)
- Precipitation: 2.04 inches (1981)
- Snowfall: 0.4 inches (1951)
1977: Ronald McDonald House opened in Chicago. The second of its kind in the United States, it was housed inside a former convent at 622 W. Deming Place and served as a home for families whose children were being treated at nearby Children’s Memorial Hospital (now Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago).
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There are now six Ronald McDonald Houses near Chicago-area hospitals.
2012: Bulls guard Derrick Rose — who had already missed 27 games during the 2011-12 season with back, groin, toe, ankle and foot injuries — tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee with 1:22 left to play in the Eastern Conference quarterfinal opener against the Philadelphia 76ers.
The Bulls lost that series and, eventually, their championship window as Rose endured a succession of knee surgeries that eventually led to his trade to the New York Knicks.
2017: Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett was sentenced to 4½ years in prison for scheming to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks in return for steering contracts to SUPES Academy, an education consulting firm where she had formerly worked.
She was released about a year early, through an initiative to free inmates particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. Her lawyer said at the time of Byrd-Bennett’s release that she would serve the rest of her sentence on home confinement.
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