Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 2, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 101 degrees (1953)

Low temperature: 44 degrees (1946)

Precipitation: 1.55 inches (2010)

Snowfall: None

1923: The Tribune provided the first reports to America on a major earthquake in Japan — a temblor measuring 7.9 in Tokyo that resulted in 100,000 deaths from the subsequent fires.

1928: The federal government purchased a new patrol wagon — with “comfortable seating capacity for twelve persons,” the Tribune reported — for use by U.S. marshals in Chicago. The patrol wagon was the first one ever used in the city by national aut

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