Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 31, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )
- High temperature: 87 degrees (1981)
- Low temperature: 12 degrees (1969)
- Precipitation: 3.12 inches (1929)
- Snowfall: 4.8 inches (1926)
1995: Sears shareholders approved a plan to spin off Allstate , then the country’s second-largest insurance company…