Your Morning Wake-Up Call for September 28, 2011
By Chuck Sudo in News on Sep 28, 2011 12:30PM
With Noah it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. We're now in our fifth straight day of rain and wondering if we at least need to break out canoe if this continues. Rain may fall sometime today over 90 percent of the Greater Chicago area - that's coverage there. Temperatures remain unseasonably cooler than normal with a projected high in the mid-60s.
On this date in Chicago history William S. Paley, who turned the Columbia Broadcasting System into one of America's largest radio and television networks, was born in 1901. In 1920 as Shoeless Joe Jackson left court after being grilled by a grand jury about the Black Sox scandal a young boy allegedly approached him as he was getting into a car and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." And in 1938 Gabby Hartnett's "Homer in the Gloamin'" sent the Cubs into the World Series. (We all know what happened there.)