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March 17, 1956: Chicago hosts its first official St. Patrick’s Day parade after Mayor Richard J. Daley makes it a city-wide event

March 16, 1880: Inventor, engineer and aviation pioneer William Bushnell Stout is born in Quincy

March 15, 1937: A Hungarian-American doctor at Cook County Hospital develops a fundamental medical storage system we take for granted today: the blood bank

March 14, 1950: Lewis Fablinger, Illinois’ last surviving Civil War veteran, dies at age 103 in Chicago

March 13, 1908: Myrtle Bachelder, a Chicago chemist whose contributions to science include her work on the Manhattan Project, is born

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