Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 15, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 99 degrees (1939)

Low temperature: 39 degrees (2007)

Precipitation: 1.38 inches (1936)

Snowfall: None

1924: The Douglas World Cruiser “Chicago” landed in Chicago as part of the group’s circumnavigation of the globe by air. The flyers were feted at The Drake amid pleas for the plane to “rest permanently in the Field Museum here.”

In 1924, Chicago was a victory leg stop for the first aviators to circle the globe

Instead, it became the first aircraft installed in the National Air and Space Museum , which was dedicated on July 1,

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