FEBRUARY 13, 2009: Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration seals a deal to lease Chicago's parking meter operation for 75 years in exchange for an upfront payment of $1 billion--an arrangement now famous as a boondoggle. We are still not sure how much the mayor profited from it, but it certainly was selling the city down the tubes and resulted in really, really expensive parking. A really, really unlucky day for Chicago.
JUNE 13, 2014: Donald Trump answers complaints from Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin that the large new sign on Trump's building is tasteless. The Donald insists that "everybody loves it" because "we're probably the hottest brand there is."
Sorry, The Donald's Hair Is the Hottest Brand. --Cooter
Showing posts with label Friday the 13th. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday the 13th. Show all posts
Friday, March 6, 2015
Friday the 13th News of Note-- Part 5: Unlucky Day for "Joey the Clown" Lombardo
MAY 13, 1994: The Bulls' Scottie Pippen sits out the final 1.8 seconds of a playoff game against the New York Knicks with the score tied because he is miffed that coach Phil Jackson has drawn up a play giving the last shot to Toni Kukoc.
The Bulls win when Kukoc hits the shot.
JANUARY 13, 2006: FBU agents arrest "Joey the Clown" Lombardo in Elmwood Park. The mob boss, on the lam for nine months, is apprehended after suffering from an abscessed tooth and going to his dentist, who turns out to be an FBI tipster. What a world when you can't even trust your dentist. Wondering if he got that tooth taken care of?
Sorry 'Bout That Scottie. --DaCoot
The Bulls win when Kukoc hits the shot.
JANUARY 13, 2006: FBU agents arrest "Joey the Clown" Lombardo in Elmwood Park. The mob boss, on the lam for nine months, is apprehended after suffering from an abscessed tooth and going to his dentist, who turns out to be an FBI tipster. What a world when you can't even trust your dentist. Wondering if he got that tooth taken care of?
Sorry 'Bout That Scottie. --DaCoot
Friday the 13th News of Note-- Part 4: Disco Demolition
SEPTEMBER 13, 1963: A fire at Mercy Hospital forces a surgical team to terminate brain surgery and close up a patient as firefighters battle a blaze 50 feet away and smoke enters the room. The patient survived.
JULY 13, 1979: The American League informs White Sox owner Bill Veeck that the game that was called off because of the previous night's Disco Demolition disturbance would be considered a forfeit. Thanks a lot Steve Dahl.
AUGUST 13, 1982: Two drivers celebrating their birthdays--both born Aug. 13, 1938 (a Saturday)-- collide in Des Plaines, Illinois, just after 6:13 a.m. Friday the 13th. One of them has a 13 in his address, and he gets away without a ticket, unlike the other driver whose address has no "13."
Talk About Your Bad Operating Conditions. --Cooter
JULY 13, 1979: The American League informs White Sox owner Bill Veeck that the game that was called off because of the previous night's Disco Demolition disturbance would be considered a forfeit. Thanks a lot Steve Dahl.
AUGUST 13, 1982: Two drivers celebrating their birthdays--both born Aug. 13, 1938 (a Saturday)-- collide in Des Plaines, Illinois, just after 6:13 a.m. Friday the 13th. One of them has a 13 in his address, and he gets away without a ticket, unlike the other driver whose address has no "13."
Talk About Your Bad Operating Conditions. --Cooter
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Friday the 13th News of Note-- Part 3
AUGUST 13, 1937: About 1,500 girls and boys march through the Loop carrying signs such as "Friday the 13th is unlucky for syphilis" as part of a campaign to stamp out venereal disease.
DECEMBER 13, 1940: The Anti-Superstition Society of Chicago meets for dinner in Room 13 of the Merchant & Manufacturers Club. Each banquet table seats 13. The president opens the session by breaking a mirror. Guests end the night by departing under a ladder with an open umbrella on top
Pressing Your Luck. --Cooter
DECEMBER 13, 1940: The Anti-Superstition Society of Chicago meets for dinner in Room 13 of the Merchant & Manufacturers Club. Each banquet table seats 13. The president opens the session by breaking a mirror. Guests end the night by departing under a ladder with an open umbrella on top
Pressing Your Luck. --Cooter
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Friday the 13th News of Note-- Part 2: Bad Day for "Scarface"
OCTOBER 13, 1871: As contributions pour into Chicago less than a week after the Great Fire, Mayor Roswell Mason orders all funds to be administered by the Chicago Relief and Aid Society. However, this group is picky about who gets aid, showing favoritism to skilled workers and the affluent and still has hundreds of thousands unspent years later. Imagine that happening in Chicago?
NOVEMBER 13, 1908: Richard Nash, a Chicago cop at the West 13th Street Station, is fired. He blames his bad luck on Friday the 13th. And, he was hired on a Friday the 13th as well.
MARCH 13, 1931: A bad day for Chicago's famed "Scarface." A grand jury indicts Al Capone on an income tax evasion charge.
"Me and My Lil' Friend." --DaCoot
NOVEMBER 13, 1908: Richard Nash, a Chicago cop at the West 13th Street Station, is fired. He blames his bad luck on Friday the 13th. And, he was hired on a Friday the 13th as well.
MARCH 13, 1931: A bad day for Chicago's famed "Scarface." A grand jury indicts Al Capone on an income tax evasion charge.
"Me and My Lil' Friend." --DaCoot
Friday the 13th News of Note-- Part 1: As Luck Would Have It
From the Friday, February 13, 2015, Chicago Tribune "As luck would have it: Friday the 13th news of note" by Mark Jacob.
That was a Friday the 13th and we have another one coming up in a week and a half. Mark Jacob takes a look back at some stories from Chicago's past on this "unlucky" date.
Friday, May 13, 1932: A North Side man reported his 13 golf clubs and 13 balls were stolen from his car at 13th and Wabash. Sounds like a story to me.
1980: Tribune film critic Gene Siskel hated the movie "Friday the 13th" so much, he went beyond just a "Thumbs Down" and gave away the movie's ending to discourage people from seeing it.
APRIL 13, 1860: A slow day for crime with just two "little cases" handled by police in the growing city of 110,000. The Tribune remarked, "Our city is very moral, or the police are not very sharp."
What Luck, A "Moral" City. --Cooter
That was a Friday the 13th and we have another one coming up in a week and a half. Mark Jacob takes a look back at some stories from Chicago's past on this "unlucky" date.
Friday, May 13, 1932: A North Side man reported his 13 golf clubs and 13 balls were stolen from his car at 13th and Wabash. Sounds like a story to me.
1980: Tribune film critic Gene Siskel hated the movie "Friday the 13th" so much, he went beyond just a "Thumbs Down" and gave away the movie's ending to discourage people from seeing it.
APRIL 13, 1860: A slow day for crime with just two "little cases" handled by police in the growing city of 110,000. The Tribune remarked, "Our city is very moral, or the police are not very sharp."
What Luck, A "Moral" City. --Cooter
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