Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 25, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 65 degrees (1908)
- Low temperature: Zero degrees (1950)
- Precipitation: 1.2 inches (2018)
- Snowfall: 5 inches (1895)
1895: A foot of snow fell over two days in the Chicago area’s worst November blizzard on record.
The second-largest November snowfall dropped 11.2 inches of snow on O’Hare International Airport, the city’s official recording site, in 2015.
1985: Chicago White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillén was named the American League’s Rookie of the Year.
“Guillén, who batted .273 and set a club record for fewest errors in a season by a shortstop with 12, received 111 points, almost twice as many as Ted Higuera, a left-handed pitcher with the Milwaukee Brewers,” the Tribune’s Jerome Holtzman reported.
Six White Sox players have won the honor, including: Luis Aparicio (1956), Gary Peters (1963), Tommie Agee (1966), Ron Kittle (1983), Guillén and José Abreu (2014).
1987: Chicago Mayor Harold Washington was stricken by a heart attack while sitting at his desk just nine months after winning reelection to a second term. He was pronounced dead at 1:36 p.m.
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Remembering Mayor Harold Washington, 35 years after his death
Upon hearing of Washington’s death, one mourner in Daley Plaza cried, “He wasn’t finished.” In the days that followed, the city came together as it never really had when he was alive.
2019: An indictment was unsealed against Outcome Health cofounders Shradha Agarwal and Rishi Shah, which accused the pair of fraud in illegally obtaining $487.5 million in financing and billing clients millions of dollars for ads that never ran.
A jury convicted the pair of fraud in April 2023, along with a third former executive. The jury found Brad Purdy, the company’s former chief operating officer and chief financial officer, guilty on 13 of 15 counts.
Shah was sentenced to 7½ years in prison in June 2024 by U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin, who said during sentencing, “A lot of this I believe was driven by greed.” Agarwal was sentenced to three years of confinement at a halfway house.
Agarwal and Shah are appealing their convictions.
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