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March 27, 1924: Margaret Butler, a pioneering scientist and mathematician at Argonne National Laboratory near Lemont, is born

March 26, 1943: Investigative journalist Bob Woodward is born in Geneva in Kane County

March 25, 1974: An explosion inside Centralia Coal Co.’s No. 5 mine results in the death of 111 miners

March 24, 1978: An Easter weekend ice storm paralyzes central and southern Illinois

March 23, 1901: The first Chicago Auto Show takes place – seven years before Henry Ford would introduce the Model T

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