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April 13, 1992: Water from the Chicago River breaches an underground freight tunnel, flooding basements and underground facilities throughout the Chicago Loop

April 12, 1832: Shadrach Bond, Illinois’ first governor, dies of pneumonia at his Kaskaskia farm

April 11, 1899: Percy Julian, a trailblazing African-American chemist whose soybean research paved the way for producing affordable, life-saving medicinal drugs, is born

April 10, 1900: Arnold Beckman, groundbreaking chemist, inventor and philanthropist, is born in the Livingston County village of Cullom

April 9, 1865: Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant

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