Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 6, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
High temperature: 75 degrees (1975)
Low temperature: 19 degrees (1991)
Precipitation: 0.99 inches (1951)
Snowfall: 8 inches (1951)
Supporters gather at the home of U.S. president-elect Abraham Lincoln in Springfield on the morning of Nov. 7, 1860. Lincoln and his wife are shown in the drawing in the upper left window of their home. (AP)
1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States.
Judge Mary Bartelme, center, is surrounded by supporters at election headquarters at the Sherman House Hotel in Chicago, circa 1920s. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)
1923: Mary Bartelme was elected Circuit Court judge, becoming Chicago’s first female judge and the first woman judge in Illinois.
“It is the first time Illinois has elected a woman to a court of such high jurisdiction,” the Tribune reported. “Last night as the returns came in they revived recollections of the historic night years ago when Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch first cracked the ice by winning election as justice of the peace in Evanston.”
After retiring from the bench in 1933, Bartelme, who never married, moved to Carmel, California, where she died in 1954. “One of her last wishes,” according to the Tribune, “was that instead of flowers, contributions be sent to the Mary Bartelme club, which she founded in 1914 to provide homes for dependent girls.”
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Tradition of acceptance speeches at political conventions began in Chicago
1956: Former Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson II was defeated — again — by Dwight D. Eisenhower in the race for president.
Northwest suburban 8th Congressional District candidate Tammy Duckworth, center, makes her entrance into the ballroom to give her victory speech at the Holiday Inn in Elk Grove Village on Nov. 6, 2012. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)
2012: Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth defeated freshman Republican Rep. Joe Walsh to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the northwest suburban 8th Congressional District. Duckworth was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016.
Chicago Blackhawks head coach Joel Quenneville talks to the team at the first practice of camp held at MB Ice Arena in Chicago on Sept. 14, 2018. (José M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune)
2018: The Chicago Blackhawks fired Joel Quenneville, the team’s 37th coach in franchise history, six games into the 2018-19 season. “Coach Q” led the Hawks to three Stanley Cup championships.
He resigned as coach of the Florida Panthers in 2021, two days after the second-winningest coach in NHL history was among those implicated for not swiftly responding to allegations by a Blackhawks player of being sexually assaulted by another coach during the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs.
Quenneville is currently the coach of the Anaheim Ducks.
Chicago Blackhawks head coach Jeremy Colliton stands near the bench during the first period against the Nashville Predators at the United Center on March 28, 2021, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/ChicagoTribune)
2021: The Blackhawks fired Jeremy Colliton 12 games into his fourth season as the team’s coach — and three years to the date of his hiring. Colliton’s regime ended after 205 games with an 87-92-26 record (.488 points percentage).
Chicago Cubs manager David Ross, left, meets Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell on April 7, 2022, on opening day at Wrigley Field. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)
2023: The Chicago Cubs announced they were bringing in former Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell and were moving on from David Ross. It was an abrupt ending to Ross’ tenure in Chicago that saw the Cubs go 262-284 (a .480 winning percentage) under his direction.
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