Today in Chicago History: Bulls’ Derrick Rose tears his ACL in a playoff game

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on April 28, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Front page flashback: April 29, 1955

1955: Eight people — including a Chicago fire captain — were killed and 20 others injured in a fire at the Green Mill hotel at 518 N. Green St. in Chicago. Officials believed the fire was intentionally set.

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

• High temperature: 86 degrees (1915)
• Low temperature: 28 degrees (1992)
• Precipitation: 2.04 inches (1981)
• Snowfall: 0.4 inches (1951)

1977: Ronald McDonald House opened in Chicago. The second of its kind in the United States, it was housed inside a former convent at 622 W. Deming Place and served as a home for families whose children were being treated at nearby Children’s Memorial Hospital (now Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago).

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There are now six Ronald McDonald Houses near Chicago-area hospitals.

2012: Bulls guard Derrick Rose — who had already missed 27 games during the 2011-12 season with back, groin, toe, ankle and foot injuries — tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his left knee with 1:22 left to play in the Eastern Conference quarterfinal opener against the Philadelphia 76ers.