HIGH: 63
LOW: 48
* The day’s cloudy, sporadically sprinkly open may include a few light showers but precipitation gradually ends.
* Skies brighten by afternoon and cloud breaks may permit some passing sunshine later Wednesday.
* Daytime highs a bit shy of average high of 66 degrees.
* Clearing, cooler and drier Wednesday night. Lows from the mid 50s on Chicago’s lakeshore to the low or mid 40s in the coolest western suburbs.
OCT. 8 TEMPERATURES
Normal high/low: 66(degrees)/45(degrees)
Record high: 88(degrees) (1997)
Record low: 27(degrees) (1987)
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