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Here\u2019s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 10, according to the Tribune\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n

Is an important event missing from this date? Email us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Front page flashback: April 11, 1992<\/p>\n

\"U.S.U.S. Steel’s South Works plant closed on April 10, 1992. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n

1992: U.S. Steel\u2019s South Works manufacturing plant at 79th Street and the lakeshore closed<\/a>. At its peak, the 585-acre site employed around 20,000 people. When the announcement came of its closing, it employed about 700.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Works turned out the structural steel that built Chicago and beyond<\/a>,\u201d the Tribune reported just before the plant\u2019s closure. \u201cSouth Works steel holds up McCormick Place, Sears Tower, the Amoco Building, the John Hancock Center, the Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower. It built the Cape Kennedy assembly structure and the Birmingham, Ala., Municipal Airport parking structure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steelworkers Park<\/a> occupies about 17 acres of the long-vacant site, but the rest is now planned for a national computer hub. The Chicago Plan Commission approved<\/a> its creation in November 2024.<\/p>\n

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago<\/a>)<\/p>\n

High temperature: 90 degrees (1930)
\nLow temperature: 18 degrees (1989)
\nPrecipitation: 2.53 inches (1922)
\nSnowfall: 0.8 inches (1973)<\/p>\n

\"AA drawing shows boats full of celebrants as they mark the opening of the Illinois & Michigan Canal in 1848. (Chicago History Museum)<\/p>\n

1848: The Illinois & Michigan Canal opened<\/a>. A riverboat laden with sugar and other goods from New Orleans became the first vessel to make its way along the 96-mile route from downstate LaSalle-Peru to Chicago.<\/p>\n

It took nearly a dozen years and thousands of men, mostly Irish immigrants, to build the I&M Canal, making it possible to ship cargo from the Gulf of Mexico, up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, over to the Chicago River, out into the Great Lakes and over to the Eastern Seaboard.<\/p>\n

Its usefulness as a means of water transportation, however, was virtually eliminated when a wider and deeper channel \u2014 the Sanitary and Ship Canal \u2014 was completed alongside the I&M Canal in 1900.<\/p>\n

\"ThisThis advertisement for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” describes the novel as “vital, glamorous, ironical and compassionate.” It published in the books section of the April 11, 1925, edition of the Tribune. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n

1925: \u201cThe Great Gatsby\u201d by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published.<\/p>\n

Tribune reviewer Fanny Butcher<\/a> said the book was \u201csharp, ironical, in its framework.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chicago\u2019s connection to \u2018The Great Gatsby\u2019 as Fitzgerald\u2019s novel turns 100<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Critic H.L. Mencken wasn\u2019t impressed, calling Fitzgerald\u2019s novel, \u201cno more than a glorified anecdote<\/a>, and not too probable at that. \u2026 This clown Fitzgerald rushes to his death in nine short chapters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"OctaviusOctavius Granady, Republican candidate for 20th Ward committeeman, was shot to death on Election Day in 1928. Granady is buried in Section 8 of Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island, but there’s no grave marker at the site. (Kori Rumore\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n

1928:\u00a0Octavius Granady<\/a>, a 43-year-old Black attorney, ran for Republican committeeman against mob-backed white candidate Morris Eller\u00a0in\u00a0the \u201cBloody 20th\u201d Ward on the West Side\u00a0in\u00a01928. On Election Day, two cars of gunmen chased Granady\u2019s car, which crashed into a tree. Granady was then shot to death for the crime of participating\u00a0in\u00a0a democracy.<\/p>\n

Nine men, including five police officers, were charged, but\u00a0no one<\/a>\u00a0was convicted. Granady\u2019s burial location\u00a0in\u00a0the southwest corner of Section 8\u00a0in\u00a0Lincoln Cemetery<\/a>\u00a0has no grave marker.<\/p>\n

\"CharlieCharlie Gardiner was the among the best goalies to play for the Chicago Blackhawks. Arriving in 1927, one year after the Blackhawks came to Chicago, Gardiner played just seven seasons before a brain hemorrhage ended his life a couple of months after his spectacular play led Chicago to its first Stanley Cup in 1934. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)<\/p>\n

1934: More than 18,000 fans jammed into Chicago Stadium to watch goalie Chuck Gardiner stop the Detroit Red Wings. Finally, at 30:05 of overtime, Harold \u201cMush\u201d March scored to give the Chicago Blackhawks a victory and their first title<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tribune columnist Charles Bartlett wrote<\/a>: \u201cMarch, a shrimp of a hockey player who matches his 140 pounds against all the heavyweights in the game, is going home with the most valuable puck in existence this morning. He seized the little black disc out of the Detroit cage last night at the Chicago Stadium after having blazed past Wilfred Cude, the Red Wing goalie, to give Chicago the world\u2019s championship and the Stanley Cup for the first time in their eight-year career.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LedLed Zeppelin played Chicago Stadium on April 6, 1977. (Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n

1977: Led Zeppelin canceled<\/a> one of its sold-out Chicago Stadium shows about an hour into its set. Jimmy Page, lead guitarist for the band, was stricken with stomach trouble and diarrhea as a result of food poisoning that caused the cancellation, the Tribune reported. But in light of Page\u2019s glaring mistakes that night, many fans speculated the illness was owed to his drug abuse. Fistfights broke out between concertgoers and ushers after the cancellation was announced to the 19,000 fans.<\/p>\n

As \u2018Becoming Led Zeppelin\u2019 nears theaters, a look back at the pivotal shows the band played in Chicago \u2014 or almost did<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The gig was later scheduled for an August 1977 makeup date, but was scrubbed after singer Robert Plant\u2019s young son died of a stomach virus that July.<\/p>\n

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