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FROM THE ARCHIVES - Sundown Towns of Chicago with Ernest Crim III
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Here's a FROM THE ARCHIVES episode originally released on Feb 18, 2023.
Many towns in the Chicago area were established to be all-whit…
8 months, 1 week ago
Episode 819 - Frozen in Time: Chicago's Ten Coldest Days
Season 8 Episode 819
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Chicago’s cold weather can be brutal, and it has been for more than 150 years since it started being tracked. Here are ten of Chicago…
9 months ago
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Chicago's Skid Row Flophouse Fires
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In the late 1940s and well into the 1950s, Chicago was plagued by fires that had one key thing in common – they took place at often u…
10 months ago
Episode 818 - Chicago's Deadly December: The Crash and Conspiracies of United Flight 553
Season 8 Episode 818
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On a cold and snowy day in December 1972, United Airlines flight 553 crashed into a neighborhood near Midway Airport, resulting in 45…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 817 - Chicago's Bloodshot Records with author Rob Miller
Season 8 Episode 817
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Author Rob Miller (one of the founders of Chicago's Bloodshot Records) joins me to discuss his new book, “The Hours Are Long But The …
11 months ago
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Chicago's Mass Transit Decoy Squad of the 1970s plus EXTRAS
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Please enjoy this FROM THE ARCHIVES + EXTRAS episode from the summer of 2022.
One man was robbed more than 190 times, knocked unconsci…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 816 - Ghosts of the City: Chicago's Unsolved Murders
Season 8 Episode 816
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The Spyglass Murder of Margaret Gallagher, the killing and dismemberment of Judith Mae Andersen, the execution-style murder of Chicag…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 815 - Chicago's Ghoulish Past - Expanded and Re-Recorded
Season 8 Episode 815
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Halloween is coming! Enjoy this episode about Chicago's ghoulish past, including tales of forgotten cemeteries, grave robbers, mob gr…
1 year ago
Episode 814 - Pain Fireworks Company Explosion of 1914, The
Season 8 Episode 814
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Chicago has had its share of bizarre incidents resulting in death, including the Pain Fireworks Company Explosion of 1914.
Show your s…
1 year ago
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Mysterious Death of Marshall Field Jr., The
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Here's one originally released in August 2021 that you may not have heard. Enjoy.
He was the son of one of the wealthiest men in Chica…
1 year, 1 month ago