Weather records <\/strong>(from the National Weather Service, Chicago<\/a>)<\/p>\n Vintage Chicago Tribune: Holy Name Cathedral\u2019s 150th anniversary<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 1875:<\/strong> The Cathedral of the Holy Name, at the corner of Superior and State streets,\u00a0was dedicated<\/a>\u00a0with Bishop Thomas Foley presiding. The $200,000 building (more than $6 million in today\u2019s dollars) was designed by\u00a0Patrick Keely<\/a>\u00a0of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n The Tribune had one criticism of the church\u2019s interior design: \u201cThe decorator deserves whatever censure is bestowed. He appears to have aimed at two objects \u2014 light and softness \u2014 and to have missed both in the artistic sense.\u201d<\/p>\n 1961:<\/strong> The 1,099 apartments of the William Green Homes<\/a> \u2014 a $17 million project named for the former American Federation of Labor president \u2014 were dedicated just north and west of the Cabrini extension towers.<\/p>\n Cabrini-Green timeline: From \u2018war workers\u2019 to \u2018Good Times,\u2019 Jane Byrne and demolition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Nicknamed the \u201cWhites\u201d for their white concrete exterior, the William Green housing complex consisted of eight buildings that were each 15 or 16 stories tall. The development, as a whole, became known as Cabrini-Green.<\/p>\n 1986:<\/strong> Seven were indicted<\/a> \u2014 including Chicago Aldermen Wallace Davis Jr., 27th, and Clifford P. Kelley, 20th, \u2014 by the FBI as part of its 2\u00bd-year undercover investigation into alleged City Hall corruption known as Operation Incubator<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Dishonor Roll: Chicago officials<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Davis Jr. was\u00a0convicted<\/a> in 1987 of accepting a $5,000 bribe from an FBI informant, forcing his niece to pay $11,000 in kickbacks from her salary as his ward secretary and extorting $3,000 from the owners of a restaurant in his ward. He was sentenced to 8\u00bd years in prison by a federal judge who accused Davis of committing perjury at his trial and castigated him for his lack of remorse after a jury convicted him.<\/p>\n Kelley pleaded guilty<\/a>\u00a0in June 1987 to charges he accepted $6,500 from Waste Management Inc., the world\u2019s biggest trash hauler, and $30,000 from a New York bill-collection agency vying for lucrative city work. A flamboyant 16-year Chicago City Council veteran, Kelley was sentenced to\u00a0one year<\/a>\u00a0in prison and served nine months in a minimum-security prison in Duluth, Minnesota.<\/p>\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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The William Green Homes public housing project at Division Street and Ogden Avenue was dedicated on Nov. 21, 1961. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n\n
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Ald. Wallace Davis Jr. was indicted on Nov. 21, 1986, as part of Operation Incubator, an undercover investigation into alleged City Hall corruption. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n\n