{"id":34932,"date":"2025-07-03T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34932\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:25:10","slug":"northwestern-basketball-coach-shot-and-killed-by-white-supremacist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34932\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwestern basketball coach shot and killed by white supremacist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 3, according to the Tribune\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n<p>Is an important event missing from this date? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/07\/03\/chicago-history-july-3\/mailto:krumore@chicagotribune.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Email us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weather records <\/strong>(from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/wrh\/climate?wfo=lot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service, Chicago<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High temperature: <strong>102 degrees<\/strong> (1949)<\/li>\n<li>Low temperature: <strong>50 degrees<\/strong> (1980)<\/li>\n<li>Precipitation: <strong>1.57 inches<\/strong> (1871)<\/li>\n<li>Snowfall: <strong>None<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A crowd of 125,000 would end up filling Soldier Field for the Jewish Day pageant &quot;The Romance of a People,&quot; circa Aug. 16, 1933. &quot;Attendance was one of the largest of the entire Exposition, more than 244,000 admissions being recorded,&quot; the Tribune wrote of the day's fair attendance. &quot;The occasion was the first presentation of Jewry's supreme contribution to the ethics and the aesthetics of our history-making World's Fair summer.&quot; (Chicago Tribune historical photo)\" width=\"5310\" height=\"316\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CTC-L-CTHIST-century-progress-worlds-fair-100_229045503.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"24462443\" \/>A crowd of 125,000 filled Soldier Field for the Jewish Day pageant &#8220;The Romance of a People,&#8221; in 1933. &#8220;Attendance was one of the largest of the entire Exposition, more than 244,000 admissions being recorded,&#8221; the Tribune wrote of the day&#8217;s fair attendance. &#8220;The occasion was the first presentation of Jewry&#8217;s supreme contribution to the ethics and the aesthetics of our history-making World&#8217;s Fair summer.&#8221; (Chicago Tribune historical photo)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1933:<\/strong> An estimated 125,000 people attended <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagotribune.newspapers.com\/article\/chicago-tribune-mighty-drama-traces-hist\/162117071\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Romance of a People\u201d<\/a> Jewish pageant. It was one of many cultural or religious events Soldier Field hosted during its early years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Ricky Byrdsong on May 10, 1993, after he was named the new men's basketball coach at Northwestern University. (Jim Robinson\/Chicago Tribune)\" width=\"1237\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CTC-L-SS-BYRDSONG-1C-2AM_MAIN-070_190509355.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"24343825\" \/>Ricky Byrdsong on May 10, 1993, after he was named the new men&#8217;s basketball coach at Northwestern University. (Jim Robinson\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1999:<\/strong>\u00a0Northwestern University men\u2019s basketball coach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/enews.chicagotribune.com\/q\/XyFqBsPisBy0YZKiLFxuaqE6RAD9WtEAHxTGZcOJa2pydW1vcmVAZ21haWwuY29tw4gKDL4SWYKfqyLYrAHxdIyhNC82_Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/enews.chicagotribune.com\/q\/XyFqBsPisBy0YZKiLFxuaqE6RAD9WtEAHxTGZcOJa2pydW1vcmVAZ21haWwuY29tw4gKDL4SWYKfqyLYrAHxdIyhNC82_Q&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1751519438954000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0pb7nF8Aiyqp8cAv5AZ5jb\">Ricky Byrdsong<\/a> died after being shot while walking with his two young children in Skokie. The <a href=\"https:\/\/enews.chicagotribune.com\/q\/OxiD52F3DQR0Yfn7IizT_Vrhbtk6N_A1TuXeZcOJa2pydW1vcmVAZ21haWwuY29tw4gcLIeYBxZe5TLcAqswlkL4BXe2Gw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/enews.chicagotribune.com\/q\/OxiD52F3DQR0Yfn7IizT_Vrhbtk6N_A1TuXeZcOJa2pydW1vcmVAZ21haWwuY29tw4gcLIeYBxZe5TLcAqswlkL4BXe2Gw&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1751519438955000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3cCANCmKY2AxNKhn5Q8x-I\">lone gunman<\/a>, white supremacist Benjamin Smith, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a short police chase in southern Illinois. Smith was wanted in a spree of apparent hate crimes across Illinois and Indiana.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The Grateful Dead concert at Soldier Field in Chicago on Friday, July 3, 2015. (Zbigniew Bzdak\/Chicago Tribune)\" width=\"3000\" height=\"283\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CTC-L-CT-Grateful_Dead_69_183354899.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"24462440\" \/>The Grateful Dead concert at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 3, 2015. (Zbigniew Bzdak\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2015:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2015\/07\/06\/grateful-dead-over-3-nights-missing-garcia-finding-the-spirit-in-the-crowd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Grateful Dead<\/a> returned to Soldier Field for the first time since <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagotribune.newspapers.com\/article\/chicago-tribune-grateful-deads-jerry-ga\/175738253\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Garcia\u2019s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want more vintage Chicago?<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the free\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/membership.chicagotribune.com\/newsletters\/subscribe\/lid\/2d8200fe-eefd-4f1d-bcaa-26a0ce79a461\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/membership.chicagotribune.com\/newsletters\/subscribe\/lid\/2d8200fe-eefd-4f1d-bcaa-26a0ce79a461\">Vintage Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0newsletter, join our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/762760217263236\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/762760217263236\/\">Chicagoland history Facebook group,<\/a> stay current with<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/tag\/chicago-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Today in Chicago History<\/a> and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vintagetribune\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/vintagetribune\/\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0for more from Chicago\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<p>Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/07\/03\/chicago-history-july-3\/mailto:krumore@chicagotribune.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">krumore@chicagotribune.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/07\/03\/chicago-history-july-3\/mailto:mmather@chicagotribune.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mmather@chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on July 3, according to the Tribune\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,6387,28918,5386,1818,28916,22190,28917,21479],"class_list":{"0":"post-34932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-history","10":"tag-grateful-dead","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-july-3","14":"tag-northwestern-university","15":"tag-ricky-byrdsong","16":"tag-soldier-field"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114788586228995056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}