Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 25, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 79 degrees (2007)
- Low temperature: 12 degrees (1974)
- Precipitation: 3.2 inches (1884)
- Snowfall: 13.6 inches (1930)
1886: Charles T. Yerkes bought control of the North Chicago City Railway and was made its president. For the next 13 years, the Tribune campaigned against Yerkes’ attempt to gain a monopoly over the public transportation system.
1930: A surprise storm dumped 19.2 inches of snow on Chicago — the sixth-largest blizzard in the city’s recorded history.
1959: Seventeen-year-old Cassius Clay (five years before he became Muhammad Ali) shocked Australian champion boxer Anthony Madigan in three rounds for the 175-pound title as part of the Golden Gloves tournament at Chicago Stadium.
1963: The $6-million Rotunda Building at O’Hare International Airport — with circular glass walls and four dining rooms — opened with a dinner in its upscale Seven Continents restaurant attended by Mayor Richard J. Daley and more than 200 other civic leaders.
Operated by Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Seven Continents was equipped to serve more than 20,000 meals each day to airport visitors and travelers. Entrees included live Maine lobster, Russian caviar and escargot, some flown in daily. Waiters, several of whom spoke three languages, were also imported — from Switzerland.
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