Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 3, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 91 degrees (1954)

Low temperature: 29 degrees (1981)

Precipitation: 3.95 inches (1954)

Snowfall: None

1915: In the team’s last game at West Side Grounds , the Chicago Cubs defeated the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cubs captured back-to-back baseball crowns in 1907 and 1908 at the field between Polk, Wood, and Taylor streets and Wolcott (then Lincoln) Avenue, and hosted World Series games four times in five years.

Today, the site at 912 S. Wood St. is part of the University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine .

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