Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 4, according to the Tribune’s archives.

Is an important event missing from this date? Email us .

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 95 degrees (1983)

Low temperature: 45 degrees (1997)

Precipitation: 2.95 inches (1894)

Snowfall: None

1966: Demonstrators marched from Chicago to Cicero to protest the treatment of Black college student Jerome Huey . Huey went to Cicero on May 25, 1966, to interview at a freight loading company. On his way back to the bus stop that evening, according to Tribune archives, four white teens attacked him with a baseball bat as he walked alone near 25th Street and Laramie Avenue. Huey died in a hospital four days later.

The National

See Full Page