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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 3, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Front page flashback: April 4, 1996

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 "UN," and airlines, the "A." (baiduhai)
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 “UN,” and airlines, the “A.” (baiduhai)

1996: “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, a Chicago-area native, was arrested at his remote Montana cabin.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

  • High temperature: 81 degrees (1956)
  • Low temperature: 17 degrees (1987)
  • Precipitation: 0.93 inches (1974)
  • Snowfall: 2.7 inches (1984)

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1923: Wiliam “Decent” Dever — a “wet” Democrat — was elected mayor on the reform ticket, in an attempt to clean up the rampant vice in Chicago.

Dever was voted out four years later.

But his name remains imprinted on a water crib in Lake Michigan.

Martin Cooper, chairman and CEO of ArrayComm, holds a Motorola DynaTAC, a 1973 prototype of the first handheld cellular telephone in San Francisco, Wednesday April 2, 2003. 30 years ago the first call was made from a handheld cellular telephone.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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)

1973: Motorola executive Martin Cooper

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made the very first cellphone call. And though it took place in New York City, its guts and inspiration were all Chicago.

1998 YEAR IN PICTURES 4/3/98 SPT 86666 CUBS---TRIBUNE PHOTOS BY NANCY STONE---DUTCHIE CARAY, WIFE OF HARRY CARAY SINGS "TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME" DURING THE 7TH INNING STRETCH. (Chicago Cubs Park) ORG XMIT: 86666 (TRIBUNE SERIES: 100 YEARS OF WRIGLEY FIELD) (Tribune Series: "100 Years of Wrigley Field")
Dutchie Caray, wife of Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray, sings during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field on April 3, 1998. (Nancy Stone/baiduhai)

1998: “Let ’em hear you in heaven.” Dutchie Caray — the widow of Cubs TV play-by-play announcer Harry Caray — led the seventh-inning stretch during opening day at Wrigley Field. Organist Gary Pressey launched into “Amazing Grace” as balloons were released from the bleachers in Caray’s honor.

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/baiduhai)
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/baiduhai)

2007: Shortly after lunchtime, a docile coyote nonchalantly 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.

Officials picked up the year-old male about an hour after it entered the restaurant. The animal ate nothing and no one was harmed.

The coyote was released later in Barrington Hills on 9 acres of private property, where rabbits and mice — not submarine sandwiches and chips — would be his daily fare.

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