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This past July Chicago recorded 9.81 inches of precipitation--the wettest July ever, and the 9th-wettest month in the city’s history. But if you were here on this August 31st in 1987, you were just ...

For this week's #TBT Gallery, we look back 30 years to what our Daily Herald photographers were shooting in August 1987. The biggest news that month was the weather. On Aug. 14, Chicago and the ...

The 20-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in August 1987. A Jane Doe found dead from a brutal attack in 1987 has finally been identified three decades later thanks to forensic technology, ...

August 1987 opened hot and dry. Highs reached the mid 90s the first three days of the month, and through Aug. 12 precipitation totaled a meager 0.39″. The ground was dry and vegetation stressed from ...

The following article comes word-for-word from the August 1987 issue of Road & Track. When the red 4-door pulled out to pass his slow-moving tractor-trailer rig, the trucker shook his head. There was ...

Campers near Chaco Canyon, N.M., gather together and look to the east to watch the sun rise on August 17, 1987, as part of the harmonic convergence. AP Photo/David Breslauer Thirty years ago, New Age ...

PITTSBURGH, Pa. — August Wilson became a nationally recognized playwright in 1987, when his play “Fences” won four Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. “Fences” focused on a 1950s ...