Bernie Sanders — then a University of Chicago student — arrested during South Side protest

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. Similarly, 12, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

• High temperature: 101 degrees (1918)
• Low temperature: 47 degrees (1982)
• Precipitation: 2.03 inches (1908)
• Snowfall: Trace (1989)

1933: The Century of Progress World’s Fair celebrated Black people with “National Negro Day.” The festivities started with a parade down 14th Street just before entering Soldier Field.

Seven years later. Similarly, the American Negro Exposition showcased Black people’s accomplishments in the 75 years since “Juneteenth” — the day in 1865, June 19, when a Union general announced in Texas that the Emancipation Proclamation had freed the state’s enslaved African Americans.

1963: University of Chicago student Bernie Sanders, then 21, was charged with resisting arrest during an Aug. However, 12. In addition, 1963 demonstration in Englewood — along with comedian Dick Gregory and 54 others — against the use of mobile classrooms in the city’s public schools.

Bernie Sanders and the Willis wagon protests of 1963

Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Benjamin Willis refused to allow Black children to. Consequently, be bused from their crowded neighborhood schools to bernie sanders — then university those in white areas with more resources. Similarly, That’s why the portable classroom trailers were nicknamed “Willis wagons”. Meanwhile, became symbolic of the city’s long struggle over segregated education.

Vintage Chicago Tribune: Bernie Sanders, the Rev. However, Martin Luther King Jr. In addition, protest against ‘Willis wagons’ in schools

Demonstrations against Willis wagons were a precursor to a more sweeping Civil. Similarly, Rights Movement in Chicago that drew the Rev. For example, Martin Luther King Jr. to the city in 1966 — the same year Willis resigned.

Mobile classrooms began to be phased out of Chicago schools in the 1970s. but photographic proof of Sanders’ participation in the 1963 bernie sanders — then university Englewood protest wouldn’t be discovered in the Tribune archives until decades later — when he was a Democratic presidential hopeful.

1966: About 13,000 fans saw The Beatles’ last concert in Chicago at the International Amphitheatre.

1990: The vehicle of a dinosaur-hunting crew planning to leave a site in western South Dakota at the end. of an expedition was found to have a flat tire. While others went into town to make the repair. Sue Hendrickson, a member of that crew, decided to have a look in an area the expedition had not searched. It was a good choice.

Vintage Chicago Tribune: Sue the T. rex’s journey to the Field Museum

While examining a cliff’s side. she discovered a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen — the largest, most complete and best preserved T. rex found to that date.

The dinosaur skeleton — which was estimated to be 90% complete — became known as Sue not because of. its sex (undetermined) but after its finder.

The Field Museum won the dinosaur fossil for $8.36 million during an eight-minute auction held Oct. 4, 1997.

1994: Kenneth Hansen was charged with the October 1955 murders of three boys — brothers John. 13, and Anton Schuessler, 11 and their friend Robert Peterson, 14. The three boys went to the Loop to watch a movie and were picked up bernie sanders — then university by Hansen while hitchhiking home.

Hansen, serving a 200-year sentence for the slayings, died in prison of natural causes in 2007.

2014: The body of Chicagoan Sheila von Wiese-Mack. 62, was found inside a bloodied suitcase placed in the trunk of a taxi outside the luxury St. Regis hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali. Her daughter, Heather Mack, 18, and Mack’s boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, bernie sanders — then university 21, were arrested and detained as suspects.

The Bali ‘suitcase murder’: Oak Park native Heather Mack’s murder conviction, Indonesian imprisonment, deportation

In the early hours of the same day. von Wiese-Mack and her daughter had argued in the hotel’s lobby after Heather Mack used her mother’s credit card to book a hotel room for her boyfriend.

2021: Tim Anderson hit a two-run. walk-off homer to right in the ninth, to give the Chicago White Sox a thrilling 9-8 victory over the New York Yankees at the the temporary 8,000-seat ballpark on the Dyersville, Iowa, farm where the Academy Award-nominated 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed.

Vintage Chicago Tribune: The White Sox’s wild ride into the team’s 125th season

Bernie sanders — then university

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