Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 30, according to the Tribune’s archives.<\/p>\n
Is an important event missing from this date? Email us<\/a>.<\/p>\n Flashback: Sept. 30, 1907<\/p>\n 1907: Marshall Field’s new State Street store opened one year after Field’s death<\/a> in New York. He contracted pneumonia during a winter game of golf and was buried in Graceland Cemetery<\/a>.<\/p>\n Vintage Chicago Tribune: Remembering the lore of Marshall Field’s State Street store<\/a><\/p>\n Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago<\/a>)<\/p>\n High temperature: 92 degrees (1971)<\/p>\n Low temperature: 29 degrees (1984)<\/p>\n Precipitation: 1.27 inches (1896)<\/p>\n 1843: The Diocese of Chicago<\/a>, which included all of Illinois, was created by Pope Gregory XVI<\/a>. Bishop William Quarter and his brother, Rev. Walter Quarter, were assigned to the diocese.<\/p>\n 1933: Floyd “Babe” Herman hit for the cycle twice during the 1931 season \u2014\u00a0two months apart<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 when he was with the Brooklyn Dodgers.<\/p>\n Vintage Chicago Tribune: Chicago Cubs who have hit for the cycle<\/a><\/p>\n Two seasons later, as a Cub, he managed his third. Facing Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean on Ladies Day in St. Louis, Herman hit a triple in the first inning. He hit his 13th home run of the season in the sixth inning, then added a double and a single in the ninth.<\/p>\n The Cubs\u00a0won 12-2<\/a>\u00a0and clinched third place in the National League.<\/p>\n 1964: Five weeks before Election Day, Republican Cook County Sheriff and future Illinois Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie<\/a> said there may be as many as 150,000 “ghost voters”<\/a> on Chicago election rolls and called for 1,000 volunteers to make an independent canvass.<\/p>\n 1990: On the final day<\/a> at old Comiskey Park, a crowd of 42,849 fans turned out on a glorious, sunny autumn afternoon to say farewell to what had been proclaimed “The Baseball Palace of the World” when it opened July 1, 1910.<\/p>\n Many fans were teary-eyed, realizing that the place where they had spent so many happy times would soon be turned into a parking lot for the new Comiskey Park (now called Rate Field), which was rising just to the south at 35th Street and Shields Avenue.<\/p>\n “Years from now,” the Chicago White Sox ads had said all season, “you’ll say you were there.”<\/p>\n 2015: Linda Kollmeyer<\/a> hosted the last televised Illinois Lottery drawing. The next day, the lottery went to an online digital draw system.<\/p>\n Want more vintage Chicago?<\/p>\n Subscribe to the free\u00a0Vintage Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0newsletter, join our\u00a0Chicagoland history Facebook group,<\/a> stay current with Today in Chicago History<\/a> and follow us on Instagram<\/a>\u00a0for more from Chicago’s past.<\/p>\n Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at krumore@chicagotribune.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0mmather@chicagotribune.com<\/a><\/p>\n