Weather records <\/strong>(from the National Weather Service, Chicago<\/a>)<\/p>\n 1889:<\/strong> Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened Hull House<\/a>, which offered cultural and educational programs and social-reform efforts for the poor at 800 S. Halsted St. in Chicago\u2019s 19th Ward. With the help of private donors, it prospered<\/a>. By 1907, Hull House \u2014 which was named after its original owner Charles Jerald Hull<\/a> \u2014 consisted of 13 buildings covering a city block.<\/p>\n In addition to Hull House, Addams led a highly unpopular international crusade for peace during World War I, spoke against municipal corruption in Chicago and fought for factory inspections, child labor laws and public health services<\/a>. She also participated\u00a0in the founding of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and the Women\u2019s International League for Peace and Freedom.<\/p>\n In the 1920s, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover characterized Addams as \u201cthe most dangerous woman in America,\u201d because of her pacifism and for challenging the status quo<\/a>. By 1931, Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>. She died four years later<\/a> and is buried in her hometown of Cedarville, Illinois. Starr, who had entered a convent in 1930 in failing health, died in 1940.<\/p>\n Hull House remained open until 2012<\/a>. It now houses the\u00a0Jane Addams Hull-House Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n 1949:<\/strong> A ceremony was held at Chicago Orchard (Douglas) Airport to rename the field<\/a> in honor of U.S. Navy pilot Edward \u201cButch\u201d O\u2019Hare<\/a>, who became a World War II hero when he single-handedly downed a number of Japanese bombers attacking his aircraft carrier. O\u2019Hare was the first naval aviator recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor<\/a>. O\u2019Hare was 29 when he died Nov. 26, 1943<\/a>, while leading the Navy\u2019s first nighttime fighter attack<\/a>\u00a0launched from an aircraft carrier. His plane and his body were never recovered.<\/p>\n O\u2019Hare International Airport: From farm to global terminal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Other than through his father, mob-connected race track owner Edward J.<\/a>, O\u2019Hare had only loose ties to Chicago. That was no deterrent to Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick in his campaign to have Chicago\u2019s Orchard Place Airport rechristened to honor Butch O\u2019Hare, and in 1949 Ald. John Hoellen\u2019s proposal passed the City Council, creating O\u2019Hare Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n The airport\u2019s three-letter International Air Transport Association code (ORD) continues as a vestige of its original name \u2014 Orchard Place.<\/p>\n Vintage Chicago Tribune: Bernie Sanders, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. protest against \u2018Willis wagons\u2019 in schools<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 1961:<\/strong> A lawsuit filed on behalf of 32 Black children \u2014 who attended five overly crowded elementary schools in the city \u2014 accused Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Benjamin Willis of drawing school districts on racial lines<\/a> and sought a court order to allow the children to register at desegregated schools outside their present school districts where there were vacancies.<\/p>\n Willis\u00a0denied the allegations<\/a> of gerrymandering district boundaries to keep the Chicago school system segregated. Instead, he said the double shift classes \u2014 where students attend school in half-day shifts \u2014 were the result of an overwhelming increase in enrollment in those areas.<\/p>\n 1966:<\/strong> Valerie Jean Percy<\/a>, 21, was found beaten and stabbed to death in her bed, in her family\u2019s Kenilworth mansion. It was the first homicide in the history of the North Shore suburb. Percy was the daughter of Chicago-area business executive and then-Republican U.S. Senate candidate Charles \u201cChuck\u201d Percy. She had just graduated from Cornell University and came home to work on her father\u2019s election campaign.<\/p>\n Percy\u2019s death<\/a> remains one of Illinois\u2019 best known and most mysterious unsolved killings.<\/p>\n 1970:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cSvengoolie\u201d premiered.<\/a>\u00a0The show, originally named \u201cScreaming Yellow Theater,\u201d debuted on WFLD-Ch. 32 and showed, \u201cGhosts on the Loose.\u201d Viewers were welcomed to the antics by the opening song \u201cRumble\u201d by Link Wray and the Wraymen, and a load of rubber chickens. The original host was Jerry G. Bishop, who donned green hair and a beard and mustache to portray a coffin-dwelling hippie with a wacky sense of humor named Svengoolie.<\/p>\n 1982:<\/strong> The Chicago Tribune printed inside Tribune Tower<\/a> for the last time. A run of 94,000 copies of the paper\u2019s Midwest Sunday edition was the last produced on the giant, rumbling Goss Mark II presses in the basement of Tribune Tower. Another 1.1 million copies were printed across town in the Freedom Center, the paper\u2019s new $186 million, 940,000-square-foot printing and production plant along the North Branch of the Chicago River.<\/p>\n Print operations were moved in May 2024<\/a> to the former Daily Herald facility in Schaumburg. The Freedom Center was demolished<\/a> starting in August 2024 to make way for the planned $1.7 billion Bally\u2019s Chicago Casino. <\/p>\n Tribune press operators say goodbye to an era as Freedom Center makes its final run<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Want more vintage Chicago?<\/p>\n Subscribe to the free\u00a0Vintage Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0newsletter, join our\u00a0Chicagoland history Facebook group,<\/a> stay current with Today in Chicago History<\/a> and follow us on Instagram<\/a>\u00a0for more from Chicago\u2019s past.<\/p>\n Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at krumore@chicagotribune.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0mmather@chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\n
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Jane Addams talks with a group of young people visiting her at Hull House in Chicago on May 24, 1935. (AP)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CTC-L-CTHIST-dedication_1949_229048085.jpg\")
A large crowd gathers behind the reviewing stand, right, to watch an air show staged by U.S. Navy planes as the city’s newly dubbed O’Hare International Airport is dedicated on Sept. 18, 1949. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)<\/p>\n\n
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Valerie Jeanne Percy, the 21-year-old daughter of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Charles “Chuck” Percy, was beaten and stabbed to death on Sept. 18, 1966, in the family’s Kenilworth home. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n![\"An](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CTC-L-svengoolie-bishop-01.jpg\")
A screenshot from video shows the original Svengoolie as he hosts “Screaming Yellow Theater,” circa 1971. His real name was Jerry G. Bishop, a Chicago TV and radio personality and staff announcer at Channel 32. (YouTube)<\/p>\n![\"Printing](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/CTC-L-TRIBUNE-TOWER-PRINTING-1982-01.jpg\")
The printing presses rumbled inside Tribune Tower at 435 N. Michigan Ave., from 1925 until Sept. 18, 1982. That’s when operations moved to the Chicago Tribune’s Freedom Center on the North Branch of the Chicago River. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n\n