Front page flashback:<\/strong> April 4, 1996<\/p>\n 1996:<\/strong> \u201cUnabomber\u201d Theodore Kaczynski,<\/a> a Chicago-area native, was arrested<\/a> at his remote Montana cabin.<\/p>\n 5 things you might not know about Chicago native Ted Kaczynski \u2014 the \u2018Unabomber\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Weather records <\/strong>(from the National Weather Service, Chicago<\/a>)<\/p>\n Vintage Chicago Tribune: 100 years of mayoral inauguration speeches from William Dever through Brandon Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 1923:<\/strong> Wiliam \u201cDecent\u201d Dever<\/a> \u2014 a \u201cwet\u201d Democrat \u2014 was elected mayor on the reform ticket, in an attempt to clean up the rampant vice in Chicago.<\/p>\n Dever was voted out<\/a> four years later.<\/p>\n But his name remains imprinted on a water crib<\/a> in Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n 1973:<\/strong> Motorola executive Martin Cooper<\/a> made the very first cellphone call. And though it took place in New York City, its guts and inspiration were all Chicago.<\/p>\n 1998:<\/strong> \u201cLet \u2019em hear you in heaven.\u201d<\/a> Dutchie Caray \u2014 the widow of Cubs TV play-by-play announcer Harry Caray \u2014 led the seventh-inning stretch during opening day at Wrigley Field. Organist Gary Pressey launched into \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d<\/a> as balloons were released from the bleachers in Caray\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n 2007:<\/strong> Shortly after lunchtime, a\u00a0docile coyote<\/a>\u00a0nonchalantly wandered through the propped-open door of a Quiznos submarine sandwich shop at 37 E. Adams St. in downtown Chicago and plopped down in front of the soda cooler.<\/p>\n Officials picked up the year-old male about an hour after it entered the restaurant. The animal ate nothing and no one was harmed.<\/p>\n The coyote was released later in\u00a0Barrington Hills<\/a>\u00a0on 9 acres of private property, where rabbits and mice \u2014 not submarine sandwiches and chips \u2014 would be his daily fare.<\/p>\n Vintage Chicago Tribune: Our favorite animals who became celebrities<\/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![\"Without](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CTC-L-UNABOMBER-TED-KACZYNSKI-CAPTURED-1996-01.jpg\")
Without information from David Kaczynski, brother of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, authorities might still be pursuing the case they initially dubbed UNABOMB, because the early cases involved universities, the \u201cUN,\u201d and airlines, the \u201cA.\u201d (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n\n
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Martin Cooper holds a Motorola DynaTAC, a 1973 prototype of the first handheld cellular telephone in San Francisco, on April 2, 2003. (Eric Risberg\/AP)<\/p>\n![\"1998](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CTC-L-DUTCHIE-CARAY-1998-CT0021372252.jpg\")
Dutchie Caray, wife of Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray, sings during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field on April 3, 1998. (Nancy Stone\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ctc-coyote-1jpg-CT0021261028.jpg\")
A coyote that wandered into a Chicago Quizno’s is released in Barrington Hills by Dawn Keller of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation on April 4, 2007. (Scott Strazzante\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n\n