Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 11, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 87 degrees (1928)

Low temperature: 27 degrees (1996)

Precipitation: 1.47 inches (1972)

Snowfall: Trace (1909)

1883: The Standard Time system was adopted in Chicago. Until then, a Chicagoan asked to tell what time it was could give more than one answer and still be correct. There was local time, determined by the position of the sun at high noon at a centrally located spot in town, usually City Hall. There was also railroad time, which put Columbus, Ohio, faster than Cincinnati and faster than Chicago. Scattered across the count

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