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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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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)
Flames from a fire at the Green Mill hotel, 518 N. Green. St., shot up through its roof and could be seen from the Loop on April 28, 1955, in Chicago. (Chicago Tribune)

1955: Eight people — including a Chicago fire captain — were killed and 20 others injured in a fire at the Green Mill hotel, 518 N. Green St. in Chicago. Officials believed the fire was intentionally set.

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1977: Ronald McDonald House opens in Chicago. The second of its kind in the United States, 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).

Today, there are six Ronald McDonald Houses near Chicago-area hospitals.

Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose (1) is helped off the court by Chicago Bulls trainers Jeff Tanaka, left, and Fred Tedeschi after he was injured late in the game against the Philadelphia 76ers during their first game of Eastern Conference Playoffs at the United Center on April 28, 2012. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune)
Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose (1) is helped off the court by Chicago Bulls trainers Jeff Tanaka, left, and Fred Tedeschi after he was injured late in the game against the Philadelphia 76ers during their first game of Eastern Conference Playoffs at the United Center on April 28, 2012. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune)

2012: Chicago 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.

Barbara Byrd-Bennett, right, leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on April 28, 2017, after being sentenced for her role in a bribery scandal. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)
Barbara Byrd-Bennett, right, leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on April 28, 2017, after being sentenced for her role in a bribery scandal. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)

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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