Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 11, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 74 degrees (1964)

Low temperature: 13 degrees (2019)

Precipitation: 3.18 inches (1881)

Snowfall: 3.4 inches (2019)

1911: “The Great Blue Norther.” The passage of an epic cold front across the Midwest created Chicago’s largest two-day change in temperature readings — 61 degrees — from Nov. 11-12, 1911.

The high plummeted from 74 degrees on Nov. 11 to a low of 13 degrees in the evening on Nov. 12.

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