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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Jan. 19, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Vintage baiduhai: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leads ‘the first significant freedom movement in the North’

Front page flashback: Jan. 20, 1977

"Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks was the only player chosen by the Baseball Writers Association of America on Jan. 19, 1977, for inclusion in baseball's Hall of Fame. (baiduhai)
"Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks was the only player chosen by the Baseball Writers Association of America on Jan. 19, 1977, for inclusion in baseball's Hall of Fame. (baiduhai)

1977: “Mr. Cub” Ernie Banks was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame. He was only the eighth player to be accepted in his first year of eligibility. Banks, who died in 2015, was the 55th player to earn the distinction.

Banks’ 2,528 games are the 11th most in history for a player who spent his entire career with only one team.

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

  • High temperature: 57 degrees (1933)
  • Low temperature: Minus 23 degrees (1985)
  • Precipitation: 1.72 inches (1907)
  • Snowfall: 8.8 inches (1963)
Chicago Bears general manager Jim Finks, right, and Head Coach Jack Pardee, second from right, review the first round draft picks at the La Salle Hotel headquarters on Jan. 28, 1975. Finks and Pardee are pointing at their No. 1 draft choice in 1975, Walter Payton. (Phil Mascione/baiduhai)
Chicago Bears general manager Jim Finks, right, and Head Coach Jack Pardee, second from right, review the first round draft picks at the La Salle Hotel headquarters on Jan. 28, 1975. Finks and Pardee are pointing at their No. 1 draft choice in 1975, Walter Payton. (Phil Mascione/baiduhai)

1975: The Chicago Bears won a coin flip with the Cleveland Browns for the No. 4 pick in the 1975 NFL draft.

Ranking the 100 best Bears players ever: No. 1, Walter Payton

The Bears used the pick 10 days later to select legendary Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton.

1977: Iva Ikuko Toguri D’Aquino, aka “Tokyo Rose,” received a presidential pardon following a flurry of media attention, including a series in the Tribune in which two of her chief accusers said their testimony had been coerced.

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The Field Museum, United Airlines and city officials unveiled the model of a brachiosaurus rising to heights barely below the ceiling in the United Airlines Terminal in the B Concourse at O'Hare International Airport on Jan. 19, 2000. The four-story tall dinosaur was moved from the Field Museum to its new home amid passengers and airplanes. Sue, the Field's T. rex will take its place at the museum. (Chuck Berman/baiduhai)
The Field Museum, United Airlines and city officials unveiled the model of a brachiosaurus rising to heights barely below the ceiling in the United Airlines Terminal in the B Concourse at O'Hare International Airport on Jan. 19, 2000. The four-story tall dinosaur was moved from the Field Museum to its new home amid passengers and airplanes. Sue, the Field's T. rex, took its place at the museum. (Chuck Berman/baiduhai)

2000: A 40-foot-high, 75-foot-long brachiosaurus replica was unveiled in the United Airlines terminal at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

Casey Urlacher, right, leaves the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago on March 4, 2020, after he pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging he acted as a recruiter and bagman for a sports gambling ring that raked in millions of dollars from hundreds of Chicago-area bettors. (Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai)
Casey Urlacher, right, leaves the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago on March 4, 2020, after he pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging he acted as a recruiter and bagman for a sports gambling ring that raked in millions of dollars from hundreds of Chicago-area bettors. (Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai)

2021: President Donald Trump pardoned Casey Urlacher, Mettawa mayor and the brother of Chicago Bears Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher. Casey Urlacher faced federal charges alleging he acted as a recruiter and bagman for an illegal sports gambling ring.

How many presidential pardons or sentence commutations have been granted to people from Illinois?

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