Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 28, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 95 degrees (2018)
- Low temperature: 33 degrees (1992)
- Precipitation: 1.76 inches (1908)
- Snowfall: Trace (1908)
Halas’ send-off of “Good luck, kid” to his successor immediately turned to bad luck and haunted Dooley through season records of 7-7, 1-13, 6-8 and 6-8. Dooley’s record was 20-36 (.357) from 1968-71, and he became the first Bears head coach to be fired by the organization.
1995: The Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers set a major league record with 12 home runs and combined for an American League-record 21 extra-base hits in the Sox’s 14-12 win.
2015: A federal indictment alleged former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert agreed to pay $3.5 million to someone from Yorkville — identified as Individual A in the charges — so the person would stay quiet about “prior misconduct.” Hastert, according to federal prosecutors, then lied to the FBI when asked about suspicious cash withdrawals from several banks. Hastert pleaded not guilty.
A 2016 court filing by federal prosecutors revealed allegations that Hastert sexually abused five students decades earlier.
In a packed Chicago courtroom, Hastert acknowledged in April 2016 that he sexually abused several boys he coached on the Yorkville High School wrestling team in the 1960s and 1970s. U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin repeatedly slammed Hastert as a “serial child molester” and sentenced Hastert to 15 months in prison, sex offender treatment, two years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
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