On February 12, historical events in the Chicago area included the founding of the NAACP in 1909 in response to race riots, the introduction of “The Gumps” comic strip in the Tribune in 1917, and a tragic plane crash in 1963 involving 16 Chicago residents. Additionally, controversial University of Chicago professor Marlene Dixon resigned in 1969 following a student-led sit-in, while in 2020, Peapod ceased operations after being founded in Evanston in 1989.
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Mississippi executes Vietnam veteran on death row for nearly 50 years
A Mississippi man, Richard Gerald Jordan, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1976 murder of Edwina Marter, the wife of a bank loan officer, in a ransom scheme. At 79, Jordan, a Vietnam veteran with PTSD, had spent nearly five decades on death row, with the U.S. Supreme Court denying his final appeals and Mississippi's governor denying clemency. Explain It To Me Like I'm 5: A 79-year-old man named Richard Jordan was...
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