Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 5, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 56 degrees (1890)
- Low temperature: Minus 18 degrees (1884)
- Precipitation: 0.80 inches (1929)
- Snowfall: 8.7 inches (2014)
1923: A baby girl was born to Chicago Bears owner and coach George Halas. Virginia Halas McCaskey is the principal owner of the team.
“I had assumed — and so had Min (Minnie, his wife) — that the new arrival would be George Stanley Halas Jr.,” the founder and owner of the Bears said in the 1979 book “Halas by Halas: The Autobiography of George Halas.” “I already had visions of drawing my son into the thick of the Bears. We didn’t even have a name for a girl. After some searching we decided on Mary Barbara, for her two grandmothers. But my brother Frank already had appropriated those names for his daughter.”
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1937: Mayor Edward Kelly appointed five men to function as the newly created Chicago Housing Authority.
1968: Thunder Mountain, the first ski resort within Chicago’s city limits, opened.
2017: Sears sold the Craftsman brand to Stanley Black & Decker.
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