Today in Chicago History: Bears beat Packers in OT during their coldest game ever at Soldier Field

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 22, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

• High temperature: 57 degrees (1957)
• Low temperature: Minus 21 degrees (1872)
• Precipitation: 0.90 inches (2006)
• Snowfall: 3.6 inches (1953)

1910: A two-day fire at the Union Stockyards in Chicago killed 23 firefighters, including Chief James “Big Jim” Horan. The blaze started in the basement of a Morris & Co. meat storehouse and ended with the worst loss of life by a big-city fire department until the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

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1917: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, 67, died of heart disease in the rocking chair of her small room inside Columbus Hospital, which she founded. In 1946, she was canonized by Pope Pius XII as the first American saint.

Visitors to the National Shrine of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in Lincoln Park can see Cabrini’s preserved room and relics.

2008: The Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers 20-17 in overtime at Soldier Field where the temperature was 2 degrees at kickoff, making it the coldest Bears game ever at Soldier Field.

2010: Chicago firefighters Corey Ankum and Edward Stringer of Engine Co. 63, were killed and 19 others were hurt when a roof collapsed at an abandoned laundry in the South Shore neighborhood during a fire.

The building’s owner later pleaded guilty to contempt of court and was sentenced to six months in Cook County Jail for failing to make court-ordered repairs to the abandoned structure before it collapsed in the fire.

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