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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 26, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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The Chicago Bears have played 38 times on Thanksgiving. Here’s how they’ve fared in each game since 1920.

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 67 degrees (1990)

Low temperature: 2 degrees (1898)

Precipitation: 1.63 inches (1988)

Snowfall: 7.5 inches (1975)

1925: Just days after he abruptly left the University of Illinois to don the navy and orange of the Chicago Bears, three-time All-American Harold Edward “Red” Grange played in his first NFL game .

More than 36,000 fans packed Wrigley Field to see Grange, who si

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