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While many may think of the Ku Klux Klan as being primarily a Southern concern, in the first part of the 20th century larger cities to the north also had factions of the KKK, including Chicago, which grew to be one of the largest in the country.

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No sport is more closely identified with Chicago than 16-inch softball. Enjoy the history of 16" softball along with some insights about the game from a few guys who know it best - the 16" Softball Hall of Fame co-founder Al Maag, Hall of Fame President Ron Kubicki, and Hall of Fame Vice President Ray Topps.

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They seemed like a suburban couple living a normal life but in reality they were responsible for a string of car thefts and bank robberies in the Chicago area in the early 1990s that left two people dead. This is the story of The Bearded Bandit - Jeff Erickson - and his wife Jill Erickson.

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It has been called the Second Chicago Fire, The Little Chicago Fire, and simply... the Chicago Fire of 1874. How did this fire compare to the one three years earlier? Let's find out.

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During a time of tuberculosis and cholera taking a deadly toll on Chicago's children, "Fresh Air" sanitariums were built to help provide children and mothers relief from the heat, with access to food, milk, and health services. One of those buildings was built on a man-made island, and both the building and island are still in use today.

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Damen Avenue was once called Robey Street. Garfield Park used to be Central Park. Streets, ballparks, buildings, and more have been renamed throughout Chicago's history. Here are the stories behind some of those old and new names.

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The podcast series If The Walls Could Talk, created by Todd M. Ganz and Stephani Young, does a deep dive into Chicago's Edgewater Hospital and details a history involving Medicare fraud, unnecessary surgeries, mentally ill people being bussed in from other parts of the city, embezzlement, suicides, and worse.

I had the opportunity to speak with Stephani and Todd about their experience making this podcast and how it affected them. Enjoy this episode and then check out the If The Walls Could Talk podcast (https://ifthewallscouldtalkpodcast.com/).

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He was "the common's man's mayor" who served five terms and was loved by many. Sadly, the bullet of a disturbed man changed history forever for Carter H. Harrison and the city of Chicago.

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In 1966, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley announced that the first week of June would be known as “Puerto Rican Week.” One day after the celebrations ended,  an incident near Division Street and Damen Avenue set off three days of upheaval between local Puerto Rican residents and Chicago police. This is the story of the Division Street Riots of 1966.

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It was an industry that at one time employed 700,000 workers, including 200,000 here in the Chicago area. Italians, Poles, Mexicans, African Americans, and others willing to put in a long and sometimes dangerous day’s work found good pay and a career working at the steel mills. Then gradually, it went away… but not before one fateful Memorial Day protest turned deadly.

YouTube Short: Chicago's U.S. Steel South Works and Steelworker's Park (Then and Now)
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