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2025-04-26 19:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Heres a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 23, according to the Tribunes archives.Is an important event missing from this date? Email us.Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)High temperature: 88 degrees (1960)Low temperature: 25 degrees (1986)Precipitation: 1.01 inches (1878)Snowfall: 3.1 inches (1967)1848: The first boat passed through the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Laden with sugar and other goods from New Orleans, the vessel was headed to Albany, New York.Upon thecanals completionin 1848, cargo could travel smoothly from the Gulf of Mexico, up the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, join the Chicago River, head out into the Great Lakes and then over to the Eastern Seaboard. The waterway would make Chicago the epicenter of trade in the Midwest, and speculators bought up parcels then resold them for enormous profit.The 96-mile route remained in operation until 1935. Its usefulness as a means of water transportation was virtually eliminated...
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