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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 30, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )
High temperature: 66 degrees (1962)
Low temperature: Minus 1 degree (1947)
Precipitation: 0.84 inches (1881)
Snowfall: 3 inches (1907)
1905: Fielding H. “Hurry Up” Yost’s point-a-minute University of Michigan machine, unbeaten in 55 straight games and featuring halfback Willie Heston, was upset by Amos Alonzo Stagg’s University of Chicago Maroons and their resourceful 140-pound quarterback and future Tribune reporter Walter Eckersall.
1949: George Halas and the Chicago Bears retired three numbers :

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