Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on June 6, according to the archives.
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Flashback: June 6, 1944
1944: Chicagoans sat in prayer at the city’s houses of worship — including Holy Name Cathedral — as Allied troops invaded Nazi-occupied France on D-Day during World War II.
Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 97 degrees (1971)
- Low temperature: 39 degrees (1985)
- Precipitation: 1.6 inches (1931)
- Snowfall: None
1883: Charter No. 14 was issued for Medinah Temple during the ninth Imperial Session of the Imperial Grand Council at the Masonic Temple in New York.
1892: Service began on the first segment of Chicago’s “L” between Congress and 39th streets.
1995: Richard Bailey was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the alleged murder of candy heiress Helen Vorhees Brach. The sentence was decreased to 30 years weeks later.
Bailey pleaded guilty to defrauding women into paying inflated prices for show horses, a motive for the act, prosecutors say. She was declared legally dead in 1984, though her body was never found.
2004: Three-year-old Riley Fox was found drowned and half-naked in a Wilmington creek. Her father, Kevin Fox, was arrested four months later in connection with her murder, but was later cleared. On Nov. 10, 2010, convicted sex offender Scott Eby pleaded guilty to the brutal rape and murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Kevin Fox was killed in a car crash in Arkansas in March 2023.
2015: Chicago’s new elevated track and park system, The 606, opened.
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