Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 3, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 75 degrees (1987)

Low temperature: 11 degrees (1951)

Precipitation: 1.72 inches (1946)

Snowfall: 4.4 inches (1951)

1863: “In an instant … there was a snapping of iron, a cracking and crashing of timbers, a shriek of horror from the bystanders … ” The iron bridge at Rush Street , which was the first of its kind in Chicago when constructed in 1856, collapsed. At the time, 100 head of cattle and a horse and buggy carrying a man and his young sister fell into the Chicago River.

1948: The Tribune was on deadline. In the absence of el

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