Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 29, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
- High temperature: 98 degrees (1953)
- Low temperature: 43 degrees (1982)
- Precipitation: 2.02 inches (1955)
- Snowfall: None
1893: Chicago-born inventor Whitcomb L. Judson received a patent — one of his many — for “Clasp locker or unlocker for shoes” then displayed it at the city’s World’s Columbian Exposition. It eventually became the zipper.
1935: The Chicago Bears defeated a team of all-stars — including future President Gerald Ford — in the second Chicago College All-Star Game. (The first one in 1934, ended in a scoreless tie.) A safety and a field goal secured the win.
The event became a tradition through 1976.
1942: Mayor Edward J. Kelly dedicated the Frances Cabrini Rowhouses, the city’s first wartime housing project, at Chestnut Street and Cambridge Avenue. The development was named after Mother Frances X. Cabrini, an Italian American nun, founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the first American citizen to be named a saint.
1994: The new United Center hosted first event.
“Breaking the seal on this dolled-up barn was not the Rolling Stones, as originally rumored but rather the sophisticated artistry of the World Wrestling Federation’s SummerSlam ’94,” Howell J. Malham Jr. wrote for the Tribune. “And, with the Three Tenors already booked through the upcoming millennium, Bret “Hit Man” Hart, Lex Luger and the Undertaker seemed like the next logical lineup.”
In the steel cage match, Hart defeated Owen Hart and the Undertaker defeated himself.
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