Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 8, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 100 degrees (1934)

Low temperature: 52 degrees (1976)

Precipitation: 2.35 inches (1977)

Snowfall: Trace (1912)

1931: Several hundred performers — including Goliath the sea elephant — arrived to perform as part of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which became a fixture of summer in Soldier Field’s parking lot for decades.

1940: “Blond Tigress” Eleanor Jarman escaped from the women’s reformatory in Dwight. The

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