Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 6, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 75 degrees (1975)

Low temperature: 19 degrees (1991)

Precipitation: 0.99 inches (1951)

Snowfall: 8 inches (1951)

1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States.

1923: Mary Bartelme was elected Circuit Court judge, becoming Chicago’s first female judge and the first woman judge in Illinois.

“It is the first time Illinois has elected a woman to a court of such high jurisdiction,” the Tribune reported. “Last night as the returns came in they revived recollections of the historic night years ago when

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