Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 22, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )
High temperature: 87 degrees (1953)
Low temperature: 22 degrees (1982)
Precipitation: 2.81 inches (1983)
Snowfall: Trace (2013)
1887: Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of Abraham Lincoln, was among 100,000 people who attended the unveiling of a 12-foot bronze statue of the 16th president in Lincoln Park that is known as Abraham Lincoln: The Man . According to the Chicago Park District, it is one of two monuments to Lincoln in Chicago created by Irish-born sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens . The other — Abraham Lincoln, Head of State —