Today in Chicago History: City agencies stop cooperating with federal immigration authorities
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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)
1867: The state seal of Illinois was authorized by the General Assembly, but not used until Oct. 26, 1868. It was designed by Illinois Secretary of State Sharon Tyndale and that office remains the keeper of the seal.
Tyndale sought to change the state motto from 'State Sovereignty, National Union' to 'National Union, State Sovereignty' after the Civil War. He was rebuffed by the Republican-dominated Illinois Senate. Tyndale, however, got the last laugh when he later illegally redesigned the current Great Seal of Illinois, putting the word 'Sovereignty' upside down and positioning more prominently the words 'National Union.'
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 train station in Springfield. The Tribune called it, 'One of the most shocking events that has ever occurred in this State.'
1896: An X-ray room was established at Mercy Hospital to take 'shadowgraphs' of injuries and fractured bones.
1931: For the third consecutive year, the Chicago area experienced an historic snow event.
Unlike the previous two years, however, the city was prepared for it. Overall 16.2 inches of snow — the seventh largest storm in the city's recorded history — blanketed Chicago.
1985: Chicago Mayor Harold Washington signed an executive order ending the city's practice of asking job and license applicants about their U.S. citizenship and halting cooperation by city agencies with federal immigration authorities.
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