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Feb. 24, 2014: Chicago-born actor and director Harold Ramis dies at his North Shore home after five decades of writing comedy, influencing filmmakers and making moviegoers laugh

Feb. 23, 1905: Rotary International, today one of the world’s largest service organizations, is established when four men meet in the Chicago office of attorney Paul Harris and form the Rotary Club of Chicago

Feb. 22, 1839: Persecuted members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, driven from Missouri under an “extermination order” by the governor, settle Mormontown near Pittsfield in Pike County

Feb. 21, 1908: Illinois declares the native violet the state flower following a contest that invited schoolchildren to vote

Feb. 20, 1942: Navy Lt. Edward “Butch” O’Hare, namesake of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport

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