Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 2, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 78 degrees (1974)

Low temperature: 14 degrees (1951)

Precipitation: 0.89 inches (1876)

Snowfall: 1.5 inches (1966)

1924: “ Little Orphan Annie ,” the comic strip that debuted in the New York Daily News but was created by Harold Gray in suburban Chicago, began publishing in the Tribune.

2004: Democrat Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate. In defeating Republican Alan Keyes by the largest margin ever in a Senate contest in Illinois, the 43-year-old Obama became the only African American elected that year to the world’s mo

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