Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 27, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 99 degrees (2024)

Low temperature: 47 degrees (1982)

Precipitation: 1.59 inches (1923)

Snowfall: Trace (1909)

1872: Aaron Montgomery Ward established the first major mail-order business on North Clark Street in Chicago.

Wards was the first, but ultimately not the biggest, mail-order business in Chicago. In 1887, Richard Warren Sears , who had sold watches in Minneapolis, moved to the city and with the help of Alvah Curtis Roebuck, a watchmaker, began a mail-order business selling watches.

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