Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 12, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 96 degrees (1952)

Low temperature: 44 degrees (2014)

Precipitation: 2.43 inches (1961)

Snowfall: None

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1937: A Tribune story reported that some 20,000 children born in Chicago since 1920 were celebrating the wrong birthday . Why? They were born between midnight and 1 a.m. while Chicago observed daylight saving time for five months of the year. Springfield, however, remained on Central Standard Time. State law provided that its records

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