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Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 3, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 71 degrees (1970)

Low temperature: Minus 5 degrees (1940)

Precipitation: 1.12 inches (1873)

Snowfall: 4 inches (1893)

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1818: Illinois entered the Union as the 21st state .

1919: Architecture firm Holabird & Roche was chosen to design a U-shaped stadium as a memorial to U.S. soldiers who died in the war. It later was named Soldier Field .

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