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Feb. 5, 1954: The Lyric Theatre of Chicago – today the Lyric Opera – opens with an inaugural performance of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.”

Feb. 4, 1921: Betty Friedan, activist and feminist, is born in Peoria

Feb. 3, 1913: Edward F. Dunne is sworn in as Illinois’ 26th governor

Feb. 2, 2011: Northern and central Illinois dig out from the powerful Groundhog Day blizzard

Feb. 1, 1865: Illinois makes history when it becomes the first state to ratify the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to abolish slavery and indentured servitude

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