5 women slain inside Lane Bryant store in Tinley Park

Here’s a look at what happened in the Chicago area on Feb. 2, according to Tribune archives.

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2008: The five women — store manager Rhoda McFarland, 42, of Joliet; Jennifer Bishop, 34, of South Bend, Indiana; Sarah Szafranski, 22, of Oakwood; Connie Woolfolk, 37, of Flossmoor; and Carrie Hudek Chiuso, 33, of Frankfort — was killedShe was shot execution-style by a gunman inside the Lane Bryant women’s clothing store in Tinley Park. disguised as a deliveryman. A sixth woman, also a store employee, was shot in the neck but survived and gave police a description of the killer. The case is still unsolved.

weather records (from National Weather Service, Chicago)

• High temperature: 52 degrees (2020)

• Low temperature: Minus 16 degrees (1996)

• Precipitation: 1.45 inch (1983)

• Snowfall: 6.6 inch (2011)

1925: Sears opened first retail store On Chicago’s West Side.

When the store, which featured an optical shop and soda fountain, opened, the Homan Square space was already home to the company’s mail-order facility. Sears’ national headquarters were located here on 55 acres. Operations moved to the new Sears Tower headquarters in 1973, then to Hoffman Estates in 1995.

Sears closed Last Chicago store in 2018.

1983: Pope St. John Paul II Elevated Archbishop Joseph Bernardin becoming the fifth Chicago Cardinal.

1999: Former Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton announced that he had Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)It is a rare, life-threatening liver disease.

“If the people who really care about me can continue to pray. And for those who want to say what they say, God be with you,” he said.

2011: Snow Wizard. seven people dead During the blizzard from January 31 to February 2 (nicknamed Groundhog Day blizzard) 21.2 inches fell – the third largest snowfall in the city’s history.

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