Front page flashback:<\/strong> Feb. 11, 1916<\/p>\n 1916:<\/strong> A few hundred of the city\u2019s most prominent people gathered at the stately University Club at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Monroe Street for a dinner welcoming the new Catholic archbishop, George Mundelein.<\/p>\n All were marked<\/a> for assassination by an anarchist cook named Jean Crones<\/a>, who spiked the soup stock with arsenic. When dinner was served, some of the highest flyers of Chicago were laid low, falling to the floor, groaning in agony and vomiting. But none died<\/a>.<\/p>\n Vintage Chicago Tribune: What to know about Mundelein, a century after his elevation as Chicago\u2019s first cardinal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Weather records <\/strong>(from the National Weather Service, Chicago<\/a>)<\/p>\n Vintage editorial: A celebration of women\u2019s suffrage: \u2018It has been a long fight and a hard one\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 1869:<\/strong> The Woman Suffrage Convention<\/a> \u2014 the first of its kind in Chicago \u2014 was held at Library Hall.<\/p>\n 1916:<\/strong> Deerfield-Shields High School senior Marian Lambert<\/a> was found dead in Helm\u2019s Woods near a train station in Lake Forest.<\/p>\n William Orpet<\/a> was tried for murder but was found not guilty by jury after the substance found that killed Lambert was potassium cyanide, not liquid cyanide.<\/p>\n 1969:<\/strong> The Chicago Housing Authority practiced racial segregation<\/a> by locating most of its public housing in poor neighborhoods, a federal judge ruled in a suit brought by the ACLU three years prior.<\/p>\n Judge Richard B. Austin held that the CHA board and staff had good intentions, but they have been the victims of a state law giving the City Council final approval on the selection of public housing sites, the Tribune reported.<\/p>\n 1980:<\/strong> Northwestern, coached by 27-year-old Mary DiStanislao, won its second straight<\/a> Big Ten women\u2019s basketball tournament, beating Minnesota 86-72 in the title game at Wisconsin.<\/p>\n 1985:<\/strong> Michael Jordan<\/a> made his NBA All-Star Game debut. Controversy arose with talk of a \u201cfreeze out\u201d<\/a> supposedly led by Isiah Thomas to keep the ball away from the popular rookie. Thomas later denied this was intentional. Jordan shot 2 for 9, scoring seven points in 22 minutes.<\/p>\n 1992:<\/strong> Speedskater Bonnie Blair<\/a> won her second gold medal in her second consecutive Olympics. She did it by completing the 500 meters in 40.33 seconds at Albertville, France.<\/p>\n Vintage Chicago Tribune: Our local Winter Olympians of Games past<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Blair became one of the most decorated U.S. women in Winter Olympics history. She competed in four Olympics and won five gold and one bronze<\/a>\u00a0speedskating medals between 1988 and 1994. The three-time World Sprint Champion also won 19 world sprint medals.<\/p>\n 2007:<\/strong> U.S. Sen. Barack Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, which was the site of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s \u201cHouse Divided\u201d<\/a> speech on June 16, 1858.<\/p>\n Obama urged Americans who hear \u201cdestiny calling\u201d to join him \u201cin the unfinished business of perfecting our union.\u201d About 15,000 people braved frigid temperatures to watch Obama speak before he departed to campaign in Iowa.<\/p>\n He defeated<\/a> Republican candidate John McCain in the Nov. 4, 2008, election and became the nation\u2019s 44th president.<\/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![\"U.S.](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTC-L-MUNDELEIN-POISONING-JEAN-CRONES-1916-01.jpg\")
Anarchist Jean Crones was suspected of poisoning several hundred people at the banquet for Chicago’s Archbishop George Mundelein on Feb. 10, 1916, but he fled the city, leaving his chemical supplies in his South Side boarding house room, which the Tribune described as a “laboratory of death.” (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n\n
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University of Wisconsin junior William Orpet turned himself into police on Feb. 12, 1916, and said he was with Marian Lambert in Helm’s Woods in Lake Forest when she died. Orpet claimed Lambert swallowed poison, which caused her death. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n![\"William](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ctc-188318285.jpg\")
William Orpet, 20, was accused of murdering his girlfriend, Marion Lambert, 18, and leaving her freezing body in Helm’s Wood in Lake Forest on Feb. 9, 1916. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)<\/p>\n![\""I](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTC-L-MICHAEL-JORDAN-ALL-STAR-GAME-1985-01.jpg\")
“I just couldn’t get into the flow,” Michael Jordan said after a jittery performance during the NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 10, 1985. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n![\"U.S.](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CTC-L-AP-BONNIE-BLAIR-OLYMPICS-1992-01.jpg\")
U.S. speed skater Bonnie Blair waves flowers after winning the gold medal in the women’s 500-meter race at the XVI Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, on Feb. 10, 1992. Flanking Blair is silver medal winner Qiaobo Ye of China, left, and bronze medal winner Christa Luding of Germany. Some thought they represented the past, present and future of speed skating. (John Gaps III\/AP)<\/p>\n\n
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Sen. Barack Obama and wife Michelle after he announced his candidacy for President of the United States at the Old State Capitol in Springfield on Feb. 10, 2007. (Pete Souza\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n