Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 10, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)

High temperature: 95 degrees (2013)
Low temperature: 44 degrees (1943)
Precipitation: 2.48 inches (1922)
Snowfall: None

1933: Mule Suttles of the Chicago American Giants homered as the West beat the East in the first Negro Leagues All-Star Game. It featured some of the greatest players in baseball history, including Cool Papa Bell, Oscar Charleston, Josh Gibson, Mule Suttles and several other Hall of Famers. The East-West All-Star Game was staged in Comiskey Park each summer from 1933 to 1950. This showcase of Black talent drew crowds ranging from 20,000 to 50,000 fans. Many teams depended on receipts from this game to keep operating.

Blues legend B.B. King performs on Sept. 10, 1970, for more than 2,000 inmates at Cook County Jail. (William Vendetta/Chicago Tribune)

1970: B.B. King performed for 2,000 inmates in the recreation yard at Cook County Jail. Sound crews recorded the music for the blues king’s next album, “Live in Cook County Jail.”

King, who was then appearing at Mister Kelly’s, told reporters that the idea for the record came after he had agreed to perform for free at the jail.

Frank Sinatra belts out his opening number, “My Kind of Town (Chicago Is),” at the grand reopening of the Chicago Theatre on Sept. 10, 1986. (Anne Cusack/Chicago Tribune)

1986: Frank Sinatra sang, Count Basie’s Orchestra played, the Mighty Wurlitzer organ piped and comedian Tom Dreesen entertained during the reopening of the Chicago Theatre following a major $10 million renovation of it and an adjoining building. The 65-year-old movie palace in the North Loop was transformed into a performing arts center with seating for 3,800.

David Dowaliby discovered his stepdaughter, 7-year-old Jacklyn Dowaliby, was missing from the family’s Midlothian early on Sept. 10, 1988. The girl’s body was found in Blue Island four days later. (Chicago Tribune)

1988: Seven-year-old Jaclyn Dowaliby was discovered missing from her Midlothian home. Her body was recovered four days later in nearby Blue Island close to the Cal-Sag Channel.

That November, a judge ordered her mother, Cynthia Dowaliby, and stepfather David Dowaliby, a Midlothian foreman, held in jail without bond on charges of the girl’s murder.

Two days after a judge cleared Cynthia Dowaliby of murder charges, a Cook County jury convicted David Dowaliby of killing Jaclyn. The evidence against him was largely circumstantial. He was sentenced in July 1990 to 45 years in prison.

The Illinois Appellate Court reversed David Dowaliby’s conviction on Oct. 30, 1991, ruling there was not enough evidence for the jury to convict him. He was released from prison in November 1991.

The girl’s murder remains unsolved.

Peggy Knight keeps a folder of mementoes that includes the exoneration of her great-great-grandmother, Catherine O’Leary, of starting the Great Chicago Fire and a photo of Knight attending the 1997 hearing with her cousins, on Aug. 16, 2021. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)

1997: 14th Ward Ald. Edward Burke introduced a resolution to exonerate Catherine O’Leary — and her cow — 126 years after the Great Chicago Fire. Burke said “reliable evidence” suggested the popular account of the fire, which has one of the O’Leary dairy cows kicking over a lantern to light the blaze, was false. The City Council Committee of Fire and Police adopted the resolution on Oct. 6, 1997.

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