City deals immigration officials a blow

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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 7, according to Tribune archives.

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Flashback to the front page of Chicagoland: March 8, 2019

Former Ald. Edward Vrdolyak, center left, leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on March 7, 2019, after pleading guilty to a federal tax evasion charge. (José M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune)

2019: Former Chicago Ald. Edward Vrdolyak pleaded guilty to a federal tax evasion charge stemming from millions of dollars in payments he received as part of a massive deal between the state and tobacco companies in the 1990s.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

High temperature: 78 degrees (2000)
Low temperature: Minus 2 degrees (1943)
Precipitation: 1.15 inches (1872)
Snowfall: 10.9 inches (1931)

The Illinois State Seal in front of the new First Appearance Court, formerly called Bond Court, at the DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. (Mark Black / for the Chicago Tribune) — The Illinois State Seal in front of the new First Appearance Court, formerly called Bond Court, at the DuPage County Courthouse in Wheaton on December 27, 2022. (Mark Black / for the Chicago Tribune)

1867: The Illinois State Seal was authorized by the General Assembly, but was not used until October 26, 1868. It was designed by Illinois Secretary of State Sharon Tyndale, and that office remains the custodian of the seal.

Tyndale sought to change the state motto from “State Sovereignty, National Union” to “National Union, State Sovereignty” after the Civil War. It was rebuffed by the Republican-dominated Illinois Senate. Tyndale, however, had the last laugh when he subsequently illegally redesigned the current Great Seal of Illinois, turning the word “sovereignty” upside down and placing the words “National Union” more prominently.

The state seal has changed several times since 1868, but Tyndale’s design has not. Tyndale was shot and killed in April 1871 while walking to the Springfield train station. The Tribune called it “one of the most shocking events ever to occur in this state.”

1896: An x-ray room was created at Mercy Hospital to take “graphic shadows” of injuries and fractures.

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“Experimenters in the city have received hundreds of requests from people wishing to locate foreign substances in their bodies,” the Tribune reported.

Just when Chicago thought the snow was over for the season, the city was covered in about 16 inches of snow in early March 1931. Tribune cartoonist Carey Orr summed up residents' reaction to the unexpected snowstorm in two images published on the front page of the Tribune's March 9, 1931, edition. (Chicago Tribune) — Just when Chicago thought the snow was over for the season, the city was covered in about 16 inches of snow in early March 1931. Tribune cartoonist Carey Orr summed up residents’ reaction to the unexpected snowstorm in two images published on the front page of the Tribune’s March 9, 1931, edition. (Chicago Tribune)

1931: For the third year in a row, the Chicago area experienced a historic snow event.

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Unlike the previous two years, the city was prepared for it. A total of 16.2 inches of snow – the seventh largest storm in the city’s history – blanketed Chicago.

Cameras escorted Lena Phillips, 31, as she marked her first day as "biker" for the Chicago Transit Authority on March 7, 1975. (Chicago Tribune) — Cameras escorted Lena Phillips, 31, as she marked her first day as a “motorwoman” for the Chicago Transit Authority on March 7, 1975. (Chicago Tribune)

1975: Lena Phillips became the CTA’s first “motorwoman”.

In signing an executive order on March 7, 1985, ending the city's practice of questioning applicants about their citizenship status, Chicago Mayor Harold Washington told reporters: "City government has and will work closely with these agencies to ensure that the public good is protected in accordance with the law. We do, however, set limits on the actions of any agency that infringes on people's basic human rights." (Chicago Tribune) — In signing an executive order on March 7, 1985, ending the city’s practice of questioning applicants about their citizenship status, Mayor Harold Washington told reporters, “The city government has worked and will work closely with these agencies to ensure that the public good is protected in accordance with the law.” (Chicago Tribune)

1985: Chicago Mayor Harold Washington signed an executive order ending the city’s practice of questioning job and license applicants about their U.S. citizenship and ending city agencies’ cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

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