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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 27, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Thanksgiving weather in Chicago: The most extreme conditions since 1872

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 67 degrees (1990)

Low temperature: 2 degrees (1887)

Precipitation: 2.93 inches (1990)

Snowfall: 5.8 inches (1891)

1903: The “Car Barn Bandits” were captured by police. Gustave Marx, Harvey Van Dine and Peter Neidermeyer were Chicago’s first celebrity criminals. From July 8 to Nov. 27, 1903, they conducted a spectacular crime spree during which they “killed eight men, including two detectives, wounded five others

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