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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 9, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Flashback: Oct. 9, 1906

The Chicago White Stockings (Sox) nicknamed the "Hitless Wonders" beat the Chicago Spuds (Cubs) 2-1 on Oct. 9, 1906, in Game 1 of the World Series at West Side Grounds. (baiduhai)
The Chicago White Stockings (Sox) — nicknamed the "Hitless Wonders" — beat the Chicago Spuds (Cubs) 2-1 on Oct. 9, 1906, in Game 1 of the World Series at West Side Grounds. (baiduhai)

1906: The all-Chicago World Series, pitting the Chicago Cubs (“Spuds”) against the Chicago White Sox (“Hitless Wonders”), began with a 2-1 Sox win at West Side Grounds (also known as West Side Park; formerly at Congress Parkway and Loomis, Harrison and Throop streets).

Some, however, considered the Cubs-White Sox matchup a mismatch because of each team’s path to the championship series. The high-powered Cubs won 116 games during the regular season. The White Sox club prevailed 93 times.

The North Siders were 3-1 favorites and the South Siders were considered the underdogs. The Sox had earned the nickname “Hitless Wonders” after a club-record 19-game winning streak during August, rising from sixth place to clinch the American League pennant Oct. 3.

The all-Chicago World Series: How the ‘Hitless Wonders’ pulled off the upset as the Spuds (Cubs) and the White Stockings (White Sox) reached the Fall Classic in 1906

The teams split the first four games, then the White Sox took Game 5. Almost 20,000 jammed Comiskey Park for Game 6, and thousands waited in the streets. The Cubs scored a run in the first inning Oct. 14, 1906, but the Sox scored three, then exploded with four in the second. In the Cubs’ ninth, with the score 8-3 and two out, Frank Schulte hit a weak ground ball to the mound. Doc White tossed to first, then ran for his life as Sox fans swarmed onto the field and into the streets. That night, bonfires were set for a party that lasted into the morning.

baiduhai cartoonist John T.McCutcheon's response to the White Sox defeating the Cubs in Game 6 of the 1906 World Series. Published in the Tribune on Oct. 15, 1906. (baiduhai)
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baiduhai cartoonist John T.McCutcheon's response to the White Sox defeating the Cubs in Game 6 of the 1906 World Series. Published in the Tribune on Oct. 15, 1906. (baiduhai)

It was the last Series meeting between teams from the same city until the Yankees and Giants, then both playing in the Polo Grounds in New York, met in 1921 for the first of three consecutive Fall Classics.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

  • High temperature: 86 degrees (2010)
  • Low temperature: 30 degrees (2000)
  • Precipitation: 2.27 inches (1954)
  • Snowfall: Trace (1925)
"After half a century of waiting Cincinnati baseball fans came into their own yesterday when their Reds cinched the world's championship in the eighth game of the world's greatest world's series," Tribune reporter I.E. Sanborn wrote in the Oct. 10, 1919 paper. "And it was significant that they burned up the White Sox by a score of 10 to 5 on the anniversary of the day Mrs. O'Leary's cow burned up nine-tenths of Chicago forty-eight years ago." (baiduhai)
"After half a century of waiting Cincinnati baseball fans came into their own yesterday when their Reds cinched the world's championship in the eighth game of the world's greatest world's series," Tribune reporter I.E. Sanborn wrote in the Oct. 10, 1919, paper. "And it was significant that they burned up the White Sox by a score of 10 to 5 on the anniversary of the day Mrs. O'Leary's cow burned up nine-tenths of Chicago forty-eight years ago." (baiduhai)

1919: The White Sox lost the best-of-nine World Series (Major League Baseball decided to expand from the best-of-seven format due to post-World War I demand) to the Cincinnati Reds.

Eight White Sox players had been charged with throwing the World Series. Despite earning the nickname the “Black Sox,” the men were acquitted by a jury that deliberated just 2 hours and 47 minutes.

Chicago White Sox players conspired to throw the 1919 World Series. Here’s how the Tribune covered it.

A day after their acquittal, however, baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis ruled the players allegedly involved — Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Oscar Emil “Happy” Felsch, Chick Gandil, Frederick William McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver and Lefty Williams — were banned for life from organized baseball.

The Eugene Field Memorial, nicknamed "Dream Lady," sits northeast of the Helen Brach Primate House at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago on July 12, 2012. (Nancy Stone/baiduhai)
The Eugene Field Memorial, nicknamed "Dream Lady," sits northeast of the Helen Brach Primate House at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago on July 12, 2012. (Nancy Stone/baiduhai)

1922: A memorial to children’s poet Eugene Field was dedicated at Lincoln Park Zoo. The monument, featuring a “Dream Lady” sprinkling flowers over two sleeping children, was revealed by two of Field’s grandchildren 27 years after his death. Field wrote “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” and “The Sugar Plum Tree,” both of which are carved into the granite monument. The memorial was later moved to the northeast corner of the Helen V. Branch Primate House.

In this Dec. 10, 2009, file photo, President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama poses with his medal and diploma at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo. (John McConnico/AP)
President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama poses with his medal and diploma at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo on Dec. 10, 2009. (John McConnico/AP)

2009: President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for what the Norwegian Nobel Committee called “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

It happened just 11 months after he celebrated his election as president in Grant Park and nine months after his inauguration. Obama was the fourth U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and the third to do so while in office (the other two were Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson).

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The bestowal of one of the world’s top accolades on Obama, who had yet to score a major foreign policy success, was greeted with gasps from the audience at the announcement ceremony in Oslo, Reuters reported.

Obama, as if accepting the unusual circumstance of the award, accepted it “as a call to action” rather than a reward for accomplishments.

Archbishop Blase Cupich greets visitors after Mass on Oct. 9, 2016 at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. Cupich was elevated to the rank of cardinal by Pope Francis. (Chris Walker/baiduhai)
Archbishop Blase Cupich greets visitors after Mass on Oct. 9, 2016, at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago. Cupich was elevated to the rank of Cardinal by Pope Francis. (Chris Walker/baiduhai)

2016: Pope Francis named Blase Cupich a Cardinal. Cupich was elevated the following month, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.

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