Right here’s a glance again at what occurred within the Chicago space on Jan. 9, in response to the Tribune’s archives.
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Climate information (from the Nationwide Climate Service, Chicago)
- Excessive temperature: 60 levels (1880)
- Low temperature: Minus 20 levels (1875)
- Precipitation: 0.93 inches (2024)
- Snowfall: 6.8 inches (1977)
2003: Hogfish, clown tang and emperor angelfish have been amongst 300 new residents that made their debut contained in the Shedd Aquarium’s $47 million Wild Reef exhibit. Thirty sharks have been added, too, earlier than the exhibit opened to the general public in April 2003.
Shedd Aquarium exhibits off new centerpiece Marvel of Water and a refreshed rotunda
1970: After a 1-13 season in 1969, the Chicago Bears tied the Pittsburgh Steelers for the worst file within the NFL. To settle who would get first choose within the subsequent draft, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle carried out a coin toss ceremony in a fancy New Orleans lodge ballroom earlier than Tremendous Bowl IV.
“Heads,” Bears consultant Ed McCaskey stated as Rozelle’s shiny 1921 silver greenback bounced on a cloth-covered desk and got here up tails. (George Halas was hospitalized following gallbladder elimination surgical procedure.)
“McCaskey, you’re a bum!” former Chicago sportswriter Jack Griffin hollered from the again of the room to Bears proprietor George Halas’ son-in-law. “You couldn’t even win a coin flip!”
The Steelers used the No. 1 choose to draft quarterback Terry Bradshaw, who led proprietor Artwork Rooney’s workforce to eight American Soccer Convention Central Division titles and 4 Tremendous Bowl titles in 14 years.
The Bears traded away their first-round choose to the Inexperienced Bay Packers in change for 3 gamers and the primary choose within the second spherical to the Dallas Cowboys for 2 gamers.
2018: Matt Nagy was launched because the Bears’ new head coach. He went 34-31 (.523) from 2018-21.
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