Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 13, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 98 degrees (1944)

Low temperature: 51 degrees (2004)

Precipitation: 2.86 inches (1987)

Snowfall: None

1927: “Lucky Lindy” Charles Lindbergh touched down in Chicago in his Spirit of St. Louis aircraft to promote commercial air travel several months after his historic solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Vintage Chicago Tribune: The city’s aviation obsession as the Chicago Air and Water Show takes flight

“We have entered the era of commercial aviation,” Lindbergh told a crowd of 35,000 at Soldier Field. “It is necessary to hav

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