Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 9, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Vintage Chicago Tribune: The entire transcript of President Richard Nixon’s Watergate tapes

Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 97 degrees (1913)

Low temperature: 51 degrees (1972)

Precipitation: 1.6 inches (1952)

Snowfall: Trace (1954)

1922: A 20-year-old Louis Armstrong arrived at Illinois Central Station from New Orleans — but he wasn’t sure he made the right decision.

100 years ago, Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago. What happened next would change jazz forever.

“Anybody watching me closely could have easily seen that I was a country boy,” he wrote in his fi

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