Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 25, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 92 degrees (2017)

Low temperature: 30 degrees (1942)

Precipitation: 1.85 inches (1961)

Snowfall: Trace (1942)

1957: Field Museum curator emeritus Karl Patterson Schmidt was bit on his left thumb by a boomslang, a poisonous African tree snake, while examining the creature at the museum at the request of Lincoln Park Zoo director Marlon Perkins. Since the snake was young and the bite was small, Schmidt decided against using an anti-venom serum.

Schmidt fell ill at his Homewood home and recorded his observations in a diary befor

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