Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 20, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 86 degrees (1953)

Low temperature: 24 degrees (1930)

Precipitation: 1.65 inches (1916)

Snowfall: 3 inches (1952)

1925: The 700-seat Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre, named for the Chicago-born playwright who died of pneumonia in 1918, was dedicated next to the Art Institute of Chicago.

The theater planned a move to the city’s theater district starting in 1988 and opened at 170 N. Dearborn St. in 2000, which made room for the Art Institute’s Modern Wing.

1995: Inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution in do

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