Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 21, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 87 degrees (1953)

Low temperature: 26 degrees (1952)

Precipitation: 2.28 inches (1933)

Snowfall: 1.9 inches (1913)

Vintage Chicago Tribune: Millennium Park — ‘the best thing former Mayor Richard M. Daley ever did’ — 20 years later

1864: Chicago City Council passed an ordinance that converted a 60-acre tract at the north end of City Cemetery into Lake Park.

1946: Navy Pier opened the Chicago branch of the University of Illinois to accommodate World War II veterans returning to college on the GI Bill.

Vintage Chicago Tribun

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