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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 21, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )
High temperature: 72 degrees (1913)
Low temperature: 1 degree (1880)
Precipitation: 1.49 inches (1906)
Snowfall: 7 inches (2015)
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Holy Name Cathedral’s 150th anniversary
1875: The Cathedral of the Holy Name, at the corner of Superior and State streets, was dedicated with Bishop Thomas Foley presiding. The $200,000 building (more than $6 million in today’s dollars) was designed by Patrick Keely of Brooklyn.
The Tribune had one criticism of the church’s interior design: “The

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