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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 8, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 64 degrees (1946)

Low temperature: Minus 7 degrees (1882)

Precipitation: 1.21 inches (1885)

Snowfall: 6.9 inches (1977)

1902: The city passed an ordinance requiring all automobiles to display numbers , both on the backs and the front and side lights.

1940: The Chicago Bears shut out the Washington Redskins 73-0 in the 1940 NFL championship game.

1972: Forty-five people died when a United Airlines jet crashed into bungalows on West 70th Place while approaching Chicago’s Midway I

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