Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 10, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 99 degrees (1944)
- Low temperature: 49 degrees (1982)
- Precipitation: 1.87 inches (1979)
- Snowfall: None
A stage door and fire escape on the rear of a building on the Essanay Studios complex is seen on Argyle Street in Chicago on July 30, 2012. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune)
1907: Essanay Studios began its 10-year run of making movies in Chicago, featuring Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson and other box-office stars. The studio made 2,000 films. About 215 survive today.
Lost ‘Sherlock Holmes’ film shot in Chicago from 1916 found in France
For 23 cold winter days in early 1915, Chaplin lived and worked in Chicago, where he made one of his short comedies for Essanay Studios, “His New Job,” before fleeing for Essanay’s operation in Niles, California.
Hoisted onto shoulders, a fan cheers for the rock group Chicago during their performance at ChicagoFest at Soldier Field on Aug. 14, 1983. (Chuck Berman/Chicago Tribune)
1983: ChicagoFest was held for the last time. Among the acts at Soldier Field were the Charlie Daniels Band, Chicago, Jerry Lee Lewis and the Beach Boys.
Construction workers put finishing touches on the exterior at Prairie Stone, site of Sears, Roebuck and Co.’s new retailing headquarters in Hoffman Estates, on July 30, 1992. (Mark Elias/AP)
1995: Sears officially moved its headquarters to Hoffman Estates. Nearly 5,000 employees would work at the suburban site. Sears headquarters had been in Chicago since Richard W. Sears moved his watch company there from North Redwood, Minnesota, in 1887.
Sears timeline: Rise, fall and restructuring of a Chicago icon over 130 years
Demolition of the vacant campus began in 2024. Dallas-based Compass Datacenters bought much of the 273-acre site at 3333 Beverly Road on the village’s far western edge in 2023, and planned to construct five massive data centers, which house the IT components needed to run the internet.
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