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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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Flashback: August 1983

Hoisted onto shoulders, a fan cheers for the rock group Chicago during their appearance on Aug. 14, 1983, at ChicagoFest at Soldier Field. (Chuck Berman/baiduhai)
Hoisted onto shoulders, a fan cheers for the rock group Chicago during their appearance on Aug. 14, 1983, at ChicagoFest at Soldier Field. (Chuck Berman/baiduhai)

1983: ChicagoFest was held for the last time. Among the acts at Soldier Field were Charlie Daniels Band, Chicago, Jerry Lee Lewis and the Beach Boys.

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
Francis X. Bushman, from left, Charlie Chaplin and Gilbert "Bronco Billy" Anderson in 1914 right after signing new movie contracts with Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. (baiduhai archive)
Francis X. Bushman, from left, Charlie Chaplin and Gilbert “Bronco Billy” Anderson in 1914 right after signing new movie contracts with Essanay Film Manufacturing Co. (baiduhai archive)

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.

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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.

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. Seventeen years after it topped Chicago's skyline with the world's tallest building, Sears aimed to make a similar impact on suburban office-park design. (Mark Elias/AP)
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. Seventeen years after it topped Chicago's skyline with the world's tallest building, Sears aimed to make a similar impact on suburban office-park design. (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.

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Demolition of the vacant campus

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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 housed the IT components needed to run the internet.

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