Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 7, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 75 degrees (1915)

Low temperature: 13 degrees (1991)

Precipitation: 1.68 inches (1895)

Snowfall: 2.8 inches (1941)

1871: Joseph Medill , Tribune editor and publisher who kept the paper going after the Great Chicago Fire — was elected mayor . He represented the “Fireproof Party.”

1934: Democrat Arthur W. Mitchell defeated Black Republican Oscar DePriest to become the first Black Democratic member of U.S. Congress .

1940: Igor Stravinsky’s new C Major Symphony — which was written for and dedicated to the Chicago S

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