Podcast
Chicago History Podcast
Stories from history of the Greatest City in the World - Chicago. The places, events, and the people behind it all.
- Episodes
- 257
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 37 min
- On air since
- 2020
- Latest episode
- 1 week ago
Episodes
257 episodes, newest first
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37 min
Episode 825 - Murder Mansion: The Rouse Family Killings
Season 8, Episode 825
Show notes
In June of 1980, millionaire couple Bruce and Darlene Rouse were killed in the bedroom of their Libertyville mansion while their children slept one floor above. The search for their killer would expose a family’s darkest secrets.
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Chicag's Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries by Bryan Alaspa
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Chicago's Haunted Crime Scenes by Eva Pilch
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1 hr 3 min
Episode 824 - Peshtigo 1871: A Town Consumed with author Deborah Hufford
Season 8, Episode 824
Show notes
This week marks the anniversary of one of the worst fires in United States history, one that started on October 8, 1871. No, it isn't the Great Chicago Fire. The Peshtigo Wisconsin Fire was far worse. Listen to how it developed, the Chicago connections, and stick around for my conversation with author Deborah Hufford, whose new historical novel "The Fire Born" is set in Peshtigo.
The Fire Born by Deborah Hufford
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21 min
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Great Purolator Armored Express Heist, The
Show notes
Back soon with new episodes! Until then, enjoy this bonkers story originally released in December 2021.
On October 20, 1974, one of the biggest vault thefts in U.S. history happened here in Chicago. This is the story of the Great Purolator Armored Express Heist.
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Big Steal, The by Tony Marzano
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HEIST: An Inside Look at the World's 100 Greatest Heists, Cons, and Capers (From Burglaries to Bank Jobs and Everything In-Between) by Pete Stegemeyer and Rebecca Pry
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Lufthansa Heist: Behind The Six-Million-Dollar Cash Haul That Shook The World by Henry Hill and Daniel Simone
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22 min
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Chicago's Old Main Post Office
Show notes
For many coming into the city from the west, the drive on the Eisenhower Expressway under that massive building at Van Buren is truly a sight to behold, but few seem to know much about its history. Today we’re talking about Chicago's Old Main Post Office.
Originally released in September 2021.
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1 hr 3 min
Episode 823 - Ground Beneath the Diamonds: A History of Chicago's White Sox Ballparks, The
Season 8, Episode 823
Show notes
The Chicago White Sox have called three primary sites home since the team’s founding in 1900, and each plot of earth carries layers of history older than the game of baseball.
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Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago White Sox: A Decade-by-Decade History
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Tales from the Chicago White Sox Dugout: A Collection of the Greatest White Sox Stories Ever Told by Ron Kittle, Bob Logan
Lost Ballparks A Celebration of Baseball's Legendary Fields by author Lawrence Ritter
Black Baseball and Chicago: Essays on the Players, Teams, and Games of the Negro Leagues' Most Important City by Leslie Heaphy
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20 min
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Bizarre Story of the Missing Wheaton Bible College Couple, The
Show notes
Originally released January 15, 2022.
In 1988, two attractive young students attending a prominent suburban Chicago religious school disappeared, setting off a frenzied search that lasted months before the truth about what happened to them was revealed.
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50 min
Episode 822 - B'Ginnings: Where Schaumburg Rocked The Suburbs
Season 8, Episode 822
Show notes
Some of histories biggest rock acts first performed in the Chicago area at music venue in a suburban strip mall in Schaumburg. This is the story of B'Ginnings.
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Street Player: My Chicago Story by Danny Seraphine
70s Chicagoland Rock Concerts by Mark Plotnick and Jim Summaria
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28 min
SPECIAL EPISODE - The Women Who Built Chicago with genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith
Show notes
Genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith joins me to discuss her connections to Chicago and "The Women Who Built Chicago" bus tour, launched for Women's History Month in partnership with Ancestry, which highlights overlooked women's contributions.
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Women Building Chicago 1790-1990: A Biographical Dictionary by Rima Lunin Schultz
Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington by Nadine Cohodas
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51 min
Episode 821 - Behind the Camera: Jun Fujita's Chicago with author Graham Harrison Lee
Season 8, Episode 821
Show notes
Jun Fujita was a pioneering Japanese-born photographer who made his way to Chicago to become widely regarded as the first Japanese American photojournalist. Hear more about Fujita's life in Chicago from Graham Harrison Lee, Fujita's great-nephew and author of the book Jun Fujita: Behind the Camera.
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52 min
Episode 820 - People Wasn't Made To Burn: The James Hickman Story
Season 8, Episode 820
Show notes
An unbearable loss pushes one man past the breaking point, ending in murder. Listener discretion is advised.
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32 min
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Sundown Towns of Chicago with Ernest Crim III
Show notes
Here's a FROM THE ARCHIVES episode originally released on Feb 18, 2023.
Many towns in the Chicago area were established to be all-white, keeping out Blacks, Asians, Jews, Native Americans, and others, allowing minorities to work in those towns but not live there. Those individuals also needed to be gone by sundown.
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44 min
Episode 819 - Frozen in Time: Chicago's Ten Coldest Days
Season 8, Episode 819
Show notes
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's coldest days.
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24 min
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Chicago's Skid Row Flophouse Fires
Show notes
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 unsafe, threadbare hotels, injuring and even killing those who were already down on their luck. This is the story of Chicago’s Skid Row Flophouse Fires.
Originally released in January 2022.
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48 min
Episode 818 - Chicago's Deadly December: The Crash and Conspiracies of United Flight 553
Season 8, Episode 818
Show notes
On a cold and snowy day in December 1972, United Airlines flight 553 crashed into a neighborhood near Midway Airport, resulting in 45 deaths. The tragedy was soon followed by conspiracies. Was the plane brought down to silence those who might jeopardize powerful people in the government?
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57 min
Episode 817 - Chicago's Bloodshot Records with author Rob Miller
Season 8, Episode 817
Show notes
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 Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music.”
https://www.robmillerwriting.com
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Bloodied But Unbowed: Bloodshot Records Life in the Trenches (DVD)
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40 min
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Chicago's Mass Transit Decoy Squad of the 1970s plus EXTRAS
Show notes
Please enjoy this FROM THE ARCHIVES + EXTRAS episode from the summer of 2022.
One man was robbed more than 190 times, knocked unconscious at least four times, and had an eardrum burst aboard Chicago’s L, each time with Chicago cops nearby watching, all in the name of public transportation safety.
This is the story of Chicago’s Mass Transit Decoy Squad of the 1970’s.
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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 Chicago Alderman Ben Lewis, and the roadside disappearance of Tammy Jo Zywicki are all part of this episode on Chicago's unsolved murders.
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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 graveyards, and more. Expanded and re-recorded from the original, released Oct. 2020..
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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.
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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 Chicago, and on one fateful night he was shot under mysterious circumstances. Was Marshall Field Jr.'s death an accident or something much darker that was covered up by powerful forces?
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