Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Aug. 3, according to the Tribune’s archives.
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Flashback: Aug. 3, 1991
Fans scream and yell in the front row of Lollapalooza on Aug. 3, 1991, at World Music Theatre in Tinley Park. This was the festival’s first year. (Steve Shay/for the Chicago Tribune)
1991: Lollapalooza made its first Chicago appearance. Jane’s Addiction, Living Colour, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Rollins Band, Butthole Surfers, Ice-T and Nine Inch Nails all performed during a nine-hour show at World Music Theatre in Tinley Park.
“Pop historians may look back at Lollapalooza as the most broadly ambitious music festival ever staged, because even such extravaganzas as Woodstock and Live Aid weren’t turned into road shows,” Tribune critic Greg Kot wrote in his review.
The festival became a yearly event in Grant Park in 2005.
Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago)
High temperature: 98 degrees (1964)
Low temperature: 48 degrees (1894)
Precipitation: 2.1 inches (1915)
Snowfall: None
1832: Sauk and Fox leader Black Hawk was captured, and the Potawatomi and Winnebago were compelled to cede land in northern Illinois.
Vintage Chicago Tribune: Summer Olympians from the area who won gold
1932: Joseph Webster Golinkin won a gold medal in mixed graphic arts at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles for his boxing-focused work “Leg Scissors.” He later served as a Navy admiral during World War II and was awarded a medal of a different metal — a Bronze Star.
In this Aug. 3, 1936, file photo, gold medalist Jesse Owens, second right, salutes during the playing of the national anthem during the medal ceremony of the 100-meter final in Berlin. (AP)
1936: Jesse Owens won the first of four gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Berlin.
U.S. triple jump silver medalist Charles Simpkins of Aiken, S.C., left, and gold medalist Mike Conley of Fayetteville, Ark., stand on the winners platform, on Aug. 3, 1992, in Barcelona. (Eric Risberg/AP)
1992: Luther South High School graduate Mike Conley’s triple jump of 59 feet, 7½ inches was the second-longest ever at the time, but was not recorded “because the wind was one-tenth of a meter too strong,” the Tribune reported. His earlier jump of 57 feet, 10¼ inches set an Olympic record (today it ranks 15th). He even leaped the 3 feet from the ground to the top step of the awards stand to receive his gold medal.
Considered the best triple jumper the U.S. has ever produced, Conley was ranked first in the world six times in his career and was also a solid long jumper, ranking in the world Top 10 seven times.
Nellie Fox, left, Chicago White Sox second baseman, signs a contract for an estimated $42,000 as Chuck Comiskey nods approval on Feb. 2, 1959, at Comiskey Park. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
1997: Chicago White Sox second baseman Nellie Fox was posthumously inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Devin Hester and his mother, Juanita Brown, unveil his Pro Football Hall of Fame bust during the enshrinement ceremony at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium on Aug. 3, 2024, in Canton, Ohio. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
2024: Chicago Bears greats Steve McMichael and Devin Hester were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Steve McMichael and his wife, Misty, along with former teammates, are displayed on the video board as he is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame during the enshrinement ceremony at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium on Aug. 3, 2024, in Canton, Ohio. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)
McMichael, who had a lengthy battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), died on April 23, 2025.
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