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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 12, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 61 degrees (1877)

Low temperature: Minus 8 degrees (2000)

Precipitation: 1.76 inches (1972)

Snowfall: 11.3 inches (1903)

1920: The Tribune was printed on Michigan Avenue for the first time after production operations were moved there from the old building at the corner of Madison and Dearborn streets.

Print production moved to Tribune Tower in 1925, then to Freedom Center in 1982 , and now continues in Schaumburg at the former Daily Herald plant.

1965: Rookie Gale Sayers — th

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