Today in Chicago History: Strike suspends service on railroads, street cars and elevated lines
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
High temperature: 100 degrees (1988)
Low temperature: 51 degrees (1990)
Precipitation: 2.55 inches (1961)
Snowfall: Trace (2003)
1922: More than 20,000 employees walked off the job starting at 4 a.m. and joined another 400,000 railroad workers as part of the Great Railroad Strike, which suspended service on all Chicago street car lines and elevated trains.
Vintage Chicago Tribune: In 1922, 400,000 railroad workers walked off the job
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