Oh, Malort!

Alyssa and Scoot talk about Mayor Daley's "Plan for Transformation" and the current state of Cabrini-Green.

Show Notes:

Block Club Chicago: Cabrini-Green: A History of Broken Promises

IMDB: Slick Boys

New York Times: Chicago Housing Agency To Be Taken Over by U.S.High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

Video: Welcome to Cabrini-Green projects in Chicago: Home of Gangster Disciples

Video: Why Chicago's Worst Public Housing Project became a National Disgrace

Video: Chicago - Cabrini Green (1989-02)

Video: CABRINI GREEN WAS NOT LIKE GOOD TIMES-- NATE JONES

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In this episode we discuss how Mayor Jane Byrne sorta takes up residence in the projects and throws the most cringe easter celebration while violating constitutional rights. Then it gets bad and constitutional rights are stomped on some more. Good Times. At the end you get Alyssa's Cabrini Green story.

Show Notes:

Chicago Magazine: Cabrini Green

WTTW: When Jane Byrne Moved in to Cabrini

Chicago Tribune: Jane Byrne’s move into Cabrini-Green is the subject of a new play. But the stunt’s history ‘depends on whom you ask.’

Chicago Sun-Times: Why Chicago’s 1st female mayor moved into the city’s most notorious public housing project

NPR: When A Mayor Moved To The Cabrini-Green Projects

DNAinfo: SPECIAL REPORT: How Kids Get Caught in Chicago's Deadly Gun Trap

NYT: Even a Grade School Is No Refuge From Gunfire

High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

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Alyssa tells Captain Scoot about early years of Cabrini Green which, for rightful reasons, was considered to be the most dangerous place in America for decades.

Show Notes:

Straight Dope: ‘Good Times’ Racist reboot on Netflix

Chicago Magazine: More Reads on Poverty and Segregation

AP: 2 Who killed Chicago cops paroled after decades in Prison

Chicago Tribune: Gangs that came to rule in seats of power

Block Club Chicago: Lawson House Reopens, Bringing Back 400 Affordable Micro Apartments To Gold Coast

Chicago Reader: ‘A city within a city’

High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing

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In this episode we discuss two tragedies that shaped Chicago and made national news.

Show Notes:

Time Out Chicago: The E2 tragedy nine years later

Chicago Tribune: Friday marks 20 years since E2 nightclub’s deadly crowd crush in South Loop, one of the worst in Chicago history

CNN: Chicago overwhelmed by nightclub deaths

NYT: 21 Die in Stampede of 1,500 at Chicago Nightclub

Block Club Chicago: E2 Nightclub Owners Responsible in Deadly Stampede: Illinois Supreme Court

WGN: Twenty Years Ago: Remembering the E2 Disaster

ABA Journal: 10 years after fatal Chicago porch collapse, $16.6M case concludesCBS News: Without Warning, ChaosNYT: 12 Die in Chicago As Crowded Decks Collapse at a Party

CBS News: On this Day 20 Years Ago

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Alyssa is joined by Pat Westmacott to discuss the history of Soldier Field as well as the Bears history of threatening to leave the city.

Show Notes:

NYT: Soldier Field: A Football Cathedral Never Really Meant for Football

South Side Weekly: Stadium Shenanigans

Chicago Tribune: Soldier Field ready for next round

Chicago Magazine: Field of Pain

NBC-5: Taxpayers Still Owe $640M on 2002 Soldier Field Renovation

Axios: Chicago Bears have a long road ahead in lakefront stadium fight

Chicago Tribune: The Chicago Bears have called Soldier Field home since 1971 — but they have flirted with leaving the downtown stadium several times since

Chicago Magazine: Football Has Always Been Good Politics in Chicago

SI: Bears Issue Statement on Proposal to Build Dome Over Soldier Field

CST: White Sox, Bears discussing ‘financing partnership’ for two stadiums, developer says

NBC News: Chicago Bears offer blunt statement after questions on Arlington Heights future

arlingtonpark.chicagobears.com

CNN: Chicago Bears to invest over $2 billion to build new stadium near Soldier Field, reversing plans to move from city center

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Alyssa is joined by Molly McAleer of Trend Lightly and Mother May I Sleep With Podcast to discuss Chicago's Most Famous High-School Soccer Coach.

Digressions include:

Covid

Al Capone's Vault/Geraldo

Should Alyssa find a Qanon Co-host?

Selling Social Media Accounts

Show Notes:

Chicago Magazine: Tale of the Tape

Chicago Tribune: Reporter’s pool visit results in departure

Prairie State Wire: Pritzker bans AM 560’s Jacobson from daily press conferences, claims she isn’t “impartial”

Chicago Tribune: Update: Amy

Chicago Tribune: Defending Amy

Chicago Tribune: Amy Jacobson interview on WGN-AM: `I can't apologize enough'

Chicago Tribune: Jacobson's job too high a price for doing her job

Chicago Tribune: How many times did Amy Jacobson go to the Stebic house? Did she share information with police? Let's ask her!

Chicago Tribune: Still Mo' on the story of the week

Chicago Tribune: Amy Jacobson files suit in `pool party' case

Jacobson v. CBS Broad., Inc.

Chicago Tribune: Jacobson sues Channel 2

Chicagoist: The Lisa Stebic Case, Five Years Later

Business Insider: Illinois governor shuts down radio host advising him to calm parents anxious over COVID in schools: 'YOU are spreading misinformation'

Daily Herald: WIND's Amy Jacobson barred from governor's media briefings

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Alyssa is joined by Ronnie Karem from Watch What Crappens to discuss a Chicagoland Icon

Show Notes:

ABC 7 Chicago: Betty Loren-Maltese reunites with daughter

NYT: Top Official In Cicero, Ill., Gets 8 Years In Fund Theft

Chicago Magazine: Trauma Queen

WGN: Betty Loren-Maltese to hold Estate Sale to Send Daughter to Beauty School

Huff Post: Betty Loren-Maltese, Former Cicero President, Holds Garage Sale (VIDEO)

Fox News: Betty Loren-Maltese spills to Fox Chicago

ABC 7 Chicago: Loren-Maltese asking how gun got in her house

CST: Betty Loren-Maltese, daughter reunite

Chicago Tribune: Judge orders Loren-Maltese to pay back taxes

CBS: Betty Loren-Maltese Returns to Cicero

LA Times: The Law Has Its Way in Al Capone’s Old Haven

Rockford Register Star: Judge allows auction of former Cicero official's home

Chicago Tribune: Ex-Chicago Ald. Edward Vrdolyak sentenced to federal prison. Here are 5 things to know about the man known as ‘Fast Eddie.’

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Alyssa is joined by Pat Westmacott to talk about the last time the White Sox wanted a new stadium.

Chicago has been Chicagoing since the started Chicago.

Show Notes:

Chicago Tribune: Ex-ISFA director sues Thompson, Reinsdorf

Capitol Fax: Reinsdorf: ‘A savvy negotiator creates leverage’

Chicago Magazine: When Michael Madigan and Big Jim Thompson Stopped Time to Save the White Sox

Vice: Better Know an Owner: Jerry Reinsdorf, White Sox Fanboy

CBS News: 20 Years of New Ballpark

NYT: No-Lose Road Game for White Sox

DNA Info: Sweetheart Deal On Ballpark Naming Rights Nothing New For White Sox

Chicago Sun-Times: Reinsdorf’s ‘save-the-Sox-for-Chicago’ argument has a familiar ring

South Side Sox: White Sox “need” new stadium to compete?

Yahoo News:

Newsweek: Acting Frisky At Comiskey

Sports Business Journal: White Sox's low attendance leading to no ticket fees for Illinois authority since 2010

Chicago Sun-Times: Comiskey Park rites herald new Sox era

Chicago Sun-Times: Fans, neighbors team up to fight new Sox stadium

Chicago Sun-Times: Sox stadium deal stalled

Chicago Sun-Times: Sox spark action on a stadium

Chicago Sun-Times: White Sox owners should shape up - or sell

Chicago Sun-Times: Sox' demise began the day Reinsdorf, Einhorn bought the club

Chicago Sun-Times: Highlights of deal

Chicago Sun-Times: Legislators cry `foul' over team's demands

Chicago Sun-Times: OK for Sox - Stadium saved by late ra

Chicago River: No small plans for 62-acre South Loop site along Chicago River

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In this episode Alyssa is joined by John Zinn to discuss Chicago's beloved weather man but first we have some updates on Oh Malort! characters including Ed Burke and Ray Lopez. We do some follow the money.

Digressions include: Chicago Rat Hole, Tamale Guy, Chance the Snappers, and Alyssa's jobs.

Chicago Tribune: ‘Doozy’ of a career: After nearly a half century on air, Tom Skilling nears his final forecast

WGN: Colleagues Pay Tribute

WBEZ: Tom Skilling has spent seven decades studying the weather. That won’t stop with retirement.

WGN: Chief Meteorologist will retire in February 2024 after 45 years at WGN

WGN: Weiner Circle Pays Tribute

WGN: Nisei Lounge

New York Times: For Skilling, There Is No Such Thing as Bad Weather

Chicago Magazine: The Cult of Tom

Chicago Tribune: CARTOON CHARACTERS AND PUPPETS ARE GONE FROM TV WEATHER SEGMENTS.

WTTW: The Groundhogs, and Tom Skilling, Have Spoken: It's Going To Be an Early Spring

WGN Bio

Dean Richards Interview

Block Club Chicago: Tom Skilling Trading In Chicago Winters For Hawaiian Sunsets In Retirement

The Atlantic: Long Live the Chicago Rat Hole

Block Club Chicgao: Chance The Snapper Is Bigger Than Ever: Checking In On Chicago’s Favorite Gator 3 Years Later

Chicago Eater: The Saga of Chicago ‘Tamale Guy’ Claudio Velez

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Alyssa is joined by Nikki Patin from R.A.G.E to discuss Oscar DePriest: Chicago's First Black Alderman.

Digressions include:

Tucker goes grocery shopping for the first time.

Canadian family moves to Russia

Alyssa is an idiot

Indiana's Gonna Indiana

Respectability Politics

Show Notes:

US House Archive

White House History: Pathbreakers: Oscar Stanton DePriest and Jessie L. Williams DePriest

Chicago Tribune: De Priest served as 1st black Congress member from North in Jim Crow era

Block Club Chicago: Bronzeville Home Of Chicago’s First Black Alderman, Oscar Stanton De Priest, Restored To Its Former Glory

Chicago Sun-Times: In honor of Black History Month, here’s a list of Chicagoans you should know

Block Club Chicago: 10 Iconic Black Chicagoans You Should Know For Black History Month And Beyond

White House Historical Association: Highlights from the Career of Oscar DePriest

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