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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 2, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 71 degrees (1982)

Low temperature: Minus 1 degree (1942)

Precipitation: 4.47 inches (1982)

Snowfall: 5.6 inches (1991)

1934: Chicago Bears rookie Beattie Feathers became the first professional to rush for 1,000 yards in a season (1,004), leading the NFL.

1942: Italian physicist and Nobel Prize winner Enrico Fermi and a team of physicists successfully tested a nuclear explosion under the grandstand of University of Chicago’s football stadium.

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