Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 7, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 65 degrees (2008)
- Low temperature: Minus 16 degrees (1912)
- Precipitation: 0.65 inches (1907)
- Snowfall: 3.9 inches (2010)
1927: The Harlem Globetrotters played their first road game in Hinckley, Ill. So goes the story, anyway.
“Pretty much the entire official version of how the Globetrotters started is baloney,” said Ben Green, author of “Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters.”
Green said the team went through so many hands and changes, there’s really no way to determine when a “first game” occurred.
1966: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told reporters in Chicago that he was working on a three-phase plan to mobilize the city’s roughly 1 million Blacks. King selected a “typical ghetto apartment on the West Side” at 1550 S. Hamlin Ave. to serve as his base for the following year.
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