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2020/04/25
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2026/10/06
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Stories from history of the Greatest City in the World - Chicago. The places, events, and the people behind it all.
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Episode 824 - Peshtigo 1871: A Town Consumed with author Deborah Hufford
2026/10/06
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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.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES - Great Purolator Armored Express Heist, The
2026/07/19
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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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FROM THE ARCHIVES - Chicago's Old Main Post Office
2026/05/31
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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.
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Episode 823 - Ground Beneath the Diamonds: A History of Chicago's White Sox Ballparks, The
2026/05/10
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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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FROM THE ARCHIVES - Bizarre Story of the Missing Wheaton Bible College Couple, The
2026/04/26
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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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Episode 822 - B'Ginnings: Where Schaumburg Rocked The Suburbs
2026/04/05
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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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SPECIAL EPISODE - The Women Who Built Chicago with genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith
2026/03/19
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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
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Episode 821 - Behind the Camera: Jun Fujita's Chicago with author Graham Harrison Lee
2026/03/07
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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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Episode 820 - People Wasn't Made To Burn: The James Hickman Story
2026/02/22
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An unbearable loss pushes one man past the breaking point, ending in murder. Listener discretion is advised.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES - Sundown Towns of Chicago with Ernest Crim III
2026/02/15
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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-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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Episode 819 - Frozen in Time: Chicago's Ten Coldest Days
2026/01/25
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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's coldest days.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES - Chicago's Skid Row Flophouse Fires
2025/12/20
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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 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.
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Episode 818 - Chicago's Deadly December: The Crash and Conspiracies of United Flight 553
2025/12/07
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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 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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Episode 817 - Chicago's Bloodshot Records with author Rob Miller
2025/11/22
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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 Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music.”
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FROM THE ARCHIVES - Chicago's Mass Transit Decoy Squad of the 1970s plus EXTRAS
2025/11/08
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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 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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Professor Twilight 2026/03/02
Wonderful, lively
I can’t say that I have listened to all 800 episodes, but the ones that I have heard are wonderful. The host has a knack for inviting humble but inter...
SangueMGH 2025/10/15
Marvelous storytelling and a host with a good radio voice!
Listen if you want to get to know Chicago more intimately. Every topic is so thoughtfully and thoroughly researched, and I really enjoy the brief, an...
DJ Double Play 2025/03/07
I love this Podcast!!
I’m a lifelong Chicagoan and I’m very proud of my city even the stuff that’s not so good. The history of Chicago, my city is something that I am alwa...
Smkt747 2025/02/07
CHP
Great insight and format, very informative and still interesting stories. And that Mr. Henry, quite the sexy voice.
BCguy94 2025/01/20
Great show
Interesting tidbits from Chicago’s history—loving it as a recent transplant!
funkman2000 2024/10/06
Used to be better
I don’t know what happened, this used to be my favorite pod but these days it seems like every episode is a rerun or an interview with someone. Loved ...
squirehogg 2024/09/05
Great and often unknown Chicago Stories
This is a wonderful collection of Chicago history, well presented and produced. I just started listening and am happy to have many episodes to explore...
Citydweller65 2024/02/11
Excellent!
This is the best of the best when it comes to Chicago history. The episodes are often a deep dive into the neighborhoods of all parts of the city and...
thetravlerinatrenchcoat 2023/11/28
Helped me fall in love w/ Chicago
This podcast is one of the many things that made me fall in love w/ the city of Chicago. I started listening when I loved to Chicago last year for gra...
Paul, St. Paul 2023/07/10
Even if you think you don’t live history….
Great stories, well told.
Maybe even better if you are from Chicago- I lived there as a kid- but you do not have to be to appreciate this cool peek i...
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