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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 7, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Shock then resolve after the attack on Pearl Harbor: ‘We’ll whip ’em, but it’ll take a few months.’

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 64 degrees (1916)

Low temperature: Minus 6 degrees (1882)

Precipitation: 1.12 inches (1980)

Snowfall: 6.9 inches (1978)

1934: Santa Claus arrived on State Street in a caravan of decorated trucks loaded with fresh items from retailers lining his path. It’s considered the very first Thanksgiving Parade in Chicago.

1956: One person was killed and 34 more were injured when a wooden CTA

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