Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 20, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) High temperature: 85 degrees (2012) Low temperature: 4 degrees (1885) Pr ecipitation: 0.96 inches (1935) Snowfall: 6 inches (1964) The catalog for an exhibition of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s drawings hosted by the Arts Club of Chicago opened at the Arts Institute of Chicago on March 20, 1923. (Art Institute of Chicago) 1923: The first solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s drawings in the United States opened at the Art Institute of Chicago, hosted by the Arts Club of Chicago. Tribune critic Eleanor Jewett, however, wasn’t impressed: “Only one or two, those the comparatively speaking finished pictures, will place Picasso for him as a man deserving of the name the art world has given him as ‘great.'” In 1913, a culture war erupted over an exhibition of modern works at the Art Institute of Chicago According to a catalog for the exhibition, 53 drawings and five pieces of sculpture were displayed until April 22, 1923, but Picasso himself didn’t attend it, the 1913 exhibition of his painting “The Woman and the Pot of Mustard,” or the 1967 unveiling of his namesake steel sculpture in Civic Center Plaza (now Daley Plaza). Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot conduct a daily news briefing on COVID-19 from the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago on March 20, 2020. Pritzker issued a “stay-at-home” order for the entire state starting Saturday at 5 p.m. through April 7. (Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune) 2020: Gov. JB Pritzker issued a stay-at-home order for Illinois due to the coronavirus. Pritzker announced the order as Illinois reached 585 confirmed cases across 25 counties, including 163 new cases. The death toll had risen to five. Vitaliy Baka hugs Ald. Maria Hadden, 49th, during an election night watch party for the Bring Chicago Home referendum on March 19, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune) 2024: Chicago voters rejected the Bring Chicago Home tax hike referendum, a major political blow to Mayor Brandon Johnson. The measure, which sought to raise the city’s real estate transfer tax on property purchases above $1 million to generate up to $100 million annually for homeless services, had survived several setbacks since advocacy groups first coalesced behind the idea years ago. Want more vintage Chicago? Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago’s past. Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at krumore@chicagotribune.com and mmather@chicagotribune.com ...read more read less