Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 29, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 82 degrees (2024)

Low temperature: 19 degrees (1925)

Precipitation: 1.19 inches (1875)

Snowfall: 1.7 inches (1906)

1955: Ten years after the site was chosen , Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport began scheduled service. Despite rain and low clouds, Trans World Airlines Flight 94 bound for Paris, then Cairo, was the first to depart with passengers from what was then the world’s largest airport.

“I consider O’Hare’s begin

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