Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 5, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 79 degrees (1978)

Low temperature: 11 degrees (1951)

Precipitation: 3.34 inches (1883)

Snowfall: 4 inches (1896)

1855: Northwestern University officially opened in Evanston. Two faculty members provided instruction to the school’s first 10 students.

Vintage Chicago Tribune: Inventions and innovations by Black Chicagoans

1867: Solomon McWorter of downstate Barry received the first patent granted to a Black person in the state of Illinois. According to the Illinois State Library, U.S. Patent No. 70,451 was for “Improvement i

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