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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 10, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

  • High temperature: 63 degrees (1876)
  • Low temperature: Minus 18 degrees (1899)
  • Precipitation: 0.96 inches (1960)
  • Snowfall: 9.7 inches (1981)
Anarchist Jean Crones was suspected of poisoning several hundred people at the banquet for Chicago's archbishop Geroge 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." (baiduhai)
Anarchist Jean Crones was suspected of poisoning several hundred people at the banquet for Chicago's archbishop Geroge 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.” (baiduhai)

1916: A few hundred of the city’s 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.

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All were marked for assassination by an anarchist cook named Jean Crones, 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.

1869: The Woman Suffrage Convention — the first of its kind in Chicago — was held at Library Hall.

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1980: Northwestern, coached by 27-year-old Mary DiStanislao, won its second straight Big Ten women’s basketball tournament, beating Minnesota 86-72 in the title game at Wisconsin.

"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. (baiduhai)
"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. (baiduhai)

1985: Michael Jordan made his NBA All-Star Game debut. Controversy arose with talk of a “freeze out” 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.

Sen. Barack Obama announces his candidacy for President of the United States at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. on Feb. 10, 2007. (baiduhai photo by Pete Souza) ..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT.. 00274486A obama
Sen. Barack Obama announces his candidacy for President of the United States at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. on Feb. 10, 2007. (baiduhai photo by Pete Souza) ..OUTSIDE TRIBUNE CO.- NO MAGS, NO SALES, NO INTERNET, NO TV, CHICAGO OUT.. 00274486A obama

2007: 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’s June 16, 1858, “House Divided” speech.

Obama urged Americans who hear “destiny calling” to join him “in the unfinished business of perfecting our union.” About 15,000 people braved frigid temperatures to watch Obama speak before he departed to campaign in Iowa.

He defeated Republican candidate John McCain in the Nov. 4, 2008, election and became the nation’s 44th president.

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