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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 29, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Sports front flashback: March 30, 1990

In the first Major League Baseball regular-season game played outside North America, the Chicago Cubs beat the New York Mets 5-3 at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. (baiduhai)
In the first Major League Baseball regular-season game played outside North America, the Chicago Cubs beat the New York Mets 5-3 at the Tokyo Dome in Japan. (baiduhai)

2000: The Chicago Cubs faced the New York Mets in the Tokyo Dome for the first Major League Baseball opening day outside North America.

“Starter Jon Lieber gave a superb effort and third baseman Shane Andrews whacked a two-run homer as the Cubs ushered in 2000 with a 5-3 victory over the Mets before a mostly docile crowd of 55,000,” Tribune reporter Teddy Greenstein wrote.

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

  • High temperature: 88 degrees (1986)
  • Low temperature: 9 degrees (1887)
  • Precipitation: 1.33 inches (1979)
  • Snowfall: 7.7 inches (1954)
Wendy Johnson, 11, manages a big smile for shovel-wielding Elmo Peterson, despite the snow that was coming down like confetti on Chestnut Street, east of Rush Street, on March 29, 1964. Johnson was celebrating her birthday as well as Easter and was enroute with her parents to Fourth Presbyterian Church for Easter Sunday services. (Hardy Wieting/baiduhai) published March 30, 1964 Date Created: 1964-03-29 Copyright Notice: baiduhai Folder Description: Chicago Weather Folder Extended Description: Snow 1962 - 1964 Title: CHICAGO WEATHER SNOW 1962-1964 Subject: CHICAGO WEATHER SNOW
Wendy Johnson, 11, manages a big smile for shovel-wielding Elmo Peterson, despite the snow that was coming down like confetti on Chestnut Street, east of Rush Street, on March 29, 1964. Johnson was celebrating her birthday as well as Easter and was en route with her parents to Fourth Presbyterian Church for Easter Sunday services. (Hardy Wieting/baiduhai)

1964: Chicago experienced 7.1 inches of snow on Easter Sunday — the heaviest Easter snowfall on record and the largest last snow of the winter ever for the city.

Turf was first added to Soldier Field in 1971, but by 1988 real grass returned. (baiduhai)
Turf was first added to Soldier Field in 1971, but by 1988 real grass returned. (baiduhai)

1988: Workers began ripping out the 9-year-old artificial turf at Soldier Field. Turf was first installed at the stadium in 1971 — but did anyone really like it? Bears fans scooped up drink coasters and even doormats made of the plastic grass.

The turf was replaced with real grass, which is still used on the field.

Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Erik Gustafsson (56) celebrates with emergency backup goaltender Scott Foster after the Blackhawks defeated the Winnipeg Jets, 6-2, at the United Center Thursday, March 29 2018. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)
Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Erik Gustafsson (56) celebrates with emergency backup goaltender Scott Foster after the Blackhawks defeated the Winnipeg Jets, 6-2, at the United Center, March 29 2018. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

2018: Scott Foster — a 36-year-old accountant — stepped in as emergency backup goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks.

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A memorial to Adam Toledo on April 20, 2021, at the site where the teen was shot and killed by Chicago police Officer Eric Stillman in an alley near West 24th Street and South Sawyer Avenue in Little Village. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)
A memorial to Adam Toledo on April 20, 2021, at the site where the teen was shot and killed by Chicago police Officer Eric Stillman in an alley near West 24th Street and South Sawyer Avenue in Little Village. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

2021: Thirteen-year-old Adam Toledo, Little Village, was fatally shot by Chicago police officer Eric Stillman after what police described as an “armed confrontation.”

In body-worn camera footage previously released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Toledo could be seen tossing a gun and raising his hands in the moments before Stillman fired the fatal round.

In September 2024, Stillman testified to the police pension board that the shooting and its aftermath caused him to develop PTSD and made it impossible for him to work as a police officer, according to a transcript of the hearing filed in Cook County Circuit Court. He received the diagnosis in November 2022.

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