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From Sea to City: A Mariner’s Journey into Chicago’s Past
Season 4 Episode 137
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A city comes alive when you can stand on a corner and glimpse yesterday behind today’s skyline. That’s the spark behind my conversati…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Eastland Survivors and the Case of the Missing Bylines
Season 4 Episode 136
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Memory can vanish quietly—sometimes with a server shutdown. This week, we open the door to the Eastland disaster’s online past: from …
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Excursion to Death — The Witness Who Finally Spoke
Season 4 Episode 135
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A tug’s line goes taut, a mandolin stops mid-note, and a sleek steamer rolls onto its side in six minutes. That’s the scene an eight-…
1 year ago
Visiting Every Grave - George Hilton’s Eastland Legacy
Season 4 Episode 134
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A century after his birth, George W. Hilton is still guiding our footsteps. This episode honors the transportation historian whose bo…
1 year ago
Buried by Omission: The Eastland Victim Who Disappeared
Season 4 Episode 133
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This week we take a deeper dive into the Claims and Libels files (In the Matter of the Petition of St. Joseph-Chicago Steamship Compa…
1 year ago
True Tales from the Eastland: Admiral Rickover Remembers, Survivors Battle for Redress
Season 4 Episode 132
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Admiral Hyman Rickover—father of the nuclear navy and one of the most influential military figures of the 20th century—had a connecti…
1 year ago
Shoeless in Chicago: A Rusyn Teen Hero of the Eastland
Season 4 Episode 131
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At just 17 years old, Peter Hardy stood on a Chicago bridge in 1915, watching the Eastland fill with happy Western Electric employees…
1 year ago
Erased by a Typo — Meet the Man Who Saved Lives and Legacies
Season 4 Episode 130
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In this episode, I return to Dwight Boyer’s "True Tales of the Great Lakes" and discuss two forgotten heroes of the 1915 Eastland dis…
1 year, 1 month ago
Honeymoon Interrupted: The Groom Says "I Do" to Disaster
Season 4 Episode 129
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Hidden stories have a way of finding the light. In this fascinating deep dive, we uncover two previously unknown documents that resha…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Sleepyhead Who Dodged Death - Another Untold Eastland Story
Season 4 Episode 128
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Three young engineers fresh out of Cornell University were running late to the Western Electric company picnic on July 24, 1915. One …
1 year, 1 month ago