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May 25Rewind: The DMB Incident
Happy Memorial Day which marks the beginning of boating season. So we decided to revisit this infamous event.
Show Notes:
Chicago Tribune: Band’s driver denies drenching boat

Chicago Sun-Times: Tour boat hit with raw sewage // 2 large buses on bridge blamed for discharge that sent 5 to hospital

Chicago Sun-Times: Complaint links rock band to dumped sewage // Dave Matthews Band denies involvement in tour boat defilement

Chicago Sun-Times: Daley: Go tough on Dave Matthews driver // Mayor still likes group despite alleged sewage dumping

Chicago Sun-Times: Band's attitude reeks

Chicago Sun-Times: Bus' waste dumping leads alderman to call for crackdown

Chicago Sun-Times: Matthews Band in harmony with clean-river efforts // $100,000 gift to begin 'healing process' after bus dumps sewage

Chicago Sun-Times: Boat tour guest sues Matthews band

Chicago Sun-Times: Dave Matthews driver to face criminal charges

Chicago Sun-Times: Matthews band driver charged in river dumping // Band faces $70,000 suit for summer's Kinzie bridge incident

Chicago Sun-Times: Tour boat owners sue Dave Matthews Band

Chicago Sun-Times: Bus driver pleads guilty to dumping raw sewage // Dave Matthews Band cuts ties to employee who sloshed boaters

Chicago Sun-Times: Matthews band dumps cash into settlement

Chicago Sun-Times: $200,000 apology ends waste-dumping suit // Dave Matthews Band also donated to Park District, river group

Chicago Sun-Times: Dave Matthews 'couldn't be more sorry' for bus-dumping

Chicago Sun-Times: Nevada family, Matthews Band settle suit over dumped waste

Chicago Sun-Times: City's surveillance cameras are making Chicago safer

Case Text: Mercury Skyline Yacht Charters v. the Dave Matthews Band

Block Club Chicago: Dave Matthews Tour Bus Dumped 800 Pounds Of Poop On People Taking A Chicago River Cruise 19 Years Ago Today
Mercury Lawsuit

Fox 32 Chicago: Dave Matthews Band tour bus feces incident remembered 19 years later with plaque dedication

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1 hr 31 min
May 181972 Election Fraud: Signifying Nothing
Alyssa tells John about voter fraud in the 1972 Chicago Primary. Which you never heard about because it didn't matter but it does involve a Pulitzer.
Also, Alyssa got a cat and sprained her wrist this week so the show notes are only the articles referenced in the episode.
Show Notes:
Chicago Tribune: Tribune expose wins a Pulitzer: Chicago vote fraud disclosures earn top local reporting award Pulitzer Prize won by Tribune

Time: The Inside Man

Time: The Hanrahan Indictment

New York Times: Defeat of Hanrahan for Prosecutor Is a Stunning Blow to Daley's Organization

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40 min
May 11The Riverwalk: Twists and Turns
Alyssa tells Hugh about visions for the Riverwalk.

Socials: BlueSky, Instagram
Show Notes:
Chicago Sun-Times: Gondolas to give city a touch of Venice

Chicago Reader: Do we really need the Great Chicago Fire Festival?

HuffPo: Chicago Riverwalk Expansion: Rahm Emanuel Has Big Plans For

River Walk (PHOTOS)

Ross Barney Architects: Chicago Riverwalk

Loop North News: Building the Chicago Riverwalk – photos and key dates

Choose Chicago: Chicago Riverwalk

Chicago Tribune: DALEY ENVISIONS RIVERWALK PROJECT

Chicago Sun-Times: New riverfront era charted - Daley guidelines call for trees, cafes, night life - even waterfall

Chicago Sun-Times: City, suburbs go for the green - Landscaping back in vogue, thanks to laws, sales pressure

Chicago Sun-Times: Greening of the city - a vision in bloom - Series: - LOST HORIZONS

Chicago Sun-Times: Catch-and-Release Derby Coming Soon

Chicago Sun-Times: Council Panel Endorses Water Taxi Proposal

Chicago Sun-Times: City floats riverwalk plan - Path would link Loop area, Chinatown

Chicago Sun-Times: Riverwalk could lead to new stadium

Chicago Sun-Times: Daley unveils plan for riverwalk cafes

Chicago Sun-Times: City's cafe experiment a commuter bellyache

Chicago Sun-Times: River `jewel' planned - Kennedys seek huge complex

Chicago Sun-Times: Trump making no small plans here - World's tallest building may stand by river

Chicago Sun-Times: Daley lauds Trump plan - Other reviews less positive, and some question viability

Chicago Sun-Times: Revised Trump tower picks up civic support

Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago riverbank walkway remains just an idea // City Hall unable to find right developer, will re-launch search

Chicago Sun-Times: WHAT EVER'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH

Chicago Sun-Times: Riverwalk moving at a crawl: Temporary cafes, farmers market to open this summer

Chicago Sun-Times: First step for city riverwalk: City hopes to open no-frills path in June, with plans for improvements

Chicago Sun-Times: Why San Francisco looks to Chicago: The City by the Bay finds inspiration in our beauty and vitality

Chicago Sun-Times: Riverwalk is reborn - City touts new restaurants, floats hopes for future

Chicago Sun-Times: Bridging riverwalk gaps - City to spend $10 Mil. on walkways beneath Michigan and Wabash, connect path for 'second lakefront'

Chicago Sun-Times: $100 million loan for riverfront

Chicago Sun-Times: The Rahmwalk? Emanuel strengthens case to have Riverwalk named after him

City of Chicago: Site History

My San Antonio: Chicago official calls San Antonio River Walk 'cheap and crappy-looking'

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1 hr 11 min
May 04Jean Crones: Souper Anarchist
Alyssa tells Jack Gill from Hardy Focused about Jean Crones an anarchist who tried to kill then ArchBishop Mundelein.
Socials:
Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram
Show Notes:
Mundelein High School:Musical Works Premiered at MHS Chosen for Publication

Chicago Tribune: Chum of cook soup suspect, held by police

Catholic New Archive: Issue Article CRONES INDICTED

New Year Times: CHICAGO ANARCHISTS HELD IN POISON PLOT; Two Friends of Missing Cook Seized as Arsenic Is Found in Soup. TRAIL LEADS TO NEW YORK Report That Crones Was Once a German Spy--Priests Return, Tell of Being Stricken.

Hoosier State Chronicles: Banker Who Ate Poisoned Soup Died Monday in Chicago.

Rocky Mountain News: POISON SOUP SUSPECT HELD IN NEBRASKA JAIL

Chicago Tribune: A century ago today, an anarchist tried to kill Chicago’s archbishop with soup

New York Times: CRONES NOW GIVES 2 DAYS TO GET HIM; In Third Letter to The Times He Says He Will Leave New York in 48 Hours. STAMP "HUDSON TERMINAL" Poisoner' Favors Correspondence School for Police, "Espechely Officiells." GUARD HEADQUARTERS HERE Detectives on Fire Escapes at Ball of Knights of Columbus -- Churches Also Watched. CRONES NOW GIVES 2 DAYS TO GET HIM

Chicago Tribune: Does this taste funny to you? Chicago’s long, gross history of food poisoning

The Daily Gate City:

New York City: THIRD LETTER VERIFIED.; Club Manager Corroborates New Statements by Crones.

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1 hr 23 min
May 01 Rewind: Haymarket: Things Ryhme

In honor of of May Day being the 3rd Aniversary of Oh Malort I am rereleasing this episode about the Haymarket Affair where Molly McAleer and I talk about the origin of the 8-hour work day.

Socials:
Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram
Show Notes:
Illinois Labor History Society: The Haymarket Affair
Encyclopedia of Chicago History: Haymarket and May Day
WTTW: HAYMARKET AFFAIR HANGINGS
Britannica: Haymarket Affair
WCCO: Good Question: How did we get the 8-hour work day?
Chicago Cop: HAYMARKET SQUARE RIOT
Chicago Sun-Times: Haymarket blast shook the world - 100 years later, Chicago remembered
Chicago Reader: Haymarket Revisited
Chicago Tribune: HAYMARKET RIOT REMEMBERED
PBS: The Anarchists and the Haymarket Square Incident
Second City Sinners
Chicago Tribune: STILL-HEARD VOICES: HAYMARKET MONUMENT GETS LANDMARK STATUS
CPD: Haymarket Statue Rededication Ceremony at Police Headquarters
The Haymarket Memorial
Chicago Tribune: SITE OF HAYMARKET RIOT PROPOSED FOR LABOR PARK

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2 hr 9 min
April 27The Merle Reskin Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing
Alyssa and David muster all their theatre kid energy to talk about The Merle Reskin Theatre which was a hot topic in the news a few weeks ago and inspired silly outrage.

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Show Notes:
WBEZ: Cash-strapped DePaul closes the curtain on Downtown’s historic Reskin Theatre

DePaul University Facility

Living New Deal: Merle Reskin (former Blackstone) Theater Renovation – Chicago IL

Block Club Chicago: DePaul Unveils $72 Million Theater School Building

WTTW: Cultural Connections DePaul Theatre School

TimeOut Chicago: Merle Reskin Theatre

Broadway World: Merle Reskin Theatre

Alyssa's review of "God of Hell"

Caryl Churhill

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1 hr 2 min
April 20Ruth Hanna McCormick Part Two: History Rhymes
In this episode Alyssa and VanderRob finish their conversation about the absolutely fascinating life of heiress, suffragette, and politician. Ruth Hanna McCormick.
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Show Notes:
Time: WOMEN: Widow

Time: THE CONGRESS: Bucking Female

Ruth Hanna McCormick: A Life in Politics, 1880-1944

US House History: MCCORMICK, Ruth Hanna

National Women's History Museum:Ruth Hanna McCormick

Theodore Roosevelt Center:Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms

Rockford Register Star: Women’s History Month: Who was Ruth Hanna McCormick?

Politico: Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms born in Cleveland, March 27, 1880

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1 hr 14 min
April 13Ruth Hanna McCorkmick Part One: A Suffragette
In this episode Alyssa tells VanderRob about the absolutely fascinating life of heiress, suffragette, and politician. Ruth Hanna McCormick. Please note this is a two parter.

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Show Notes:
Time: WOMEN: Widow

Time: THE CONGRESS: Bucking Female

Ruth Hanna McCormick: A Life in Politics, 1880-1944

US House History: MCCORMICK, Ruth Hanna

National Women's History Museum:Ruth Hanna McCormick

Theodore Roosevelt Center:Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms

Rockford Register Star: Women’s History Month: Who was Ruth Hanna McCormick?

Politico: Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms born in Cleveland, March 27, 1880

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48 min
April 06Italo Balbo: Chicago's Fascist Fever Dream
In this episode Alyssa tells Risen about Italo Balbo and the time Chicago had a fascist fever dream.
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Show Notes:
Chicago Reader: Street honoring fascist Balbo to remain after aldermen cave

Chicago Tribune: Chicago cheered as Italo Balbo led a squadron of 24 Italian aircraft that splashed down in Lake Michigan 90 years ago

Chicago Magazine: The (Failed) 1946 Fight to Remove a Fascist's Name from a Chicago Street

ABC 7: Debate ensues about removal of Balbo monument, renaming of street

Chicago Sun-Times: Italo Balbo, a complex and controversial figure, from Italy to Grant Park

WTTW: History or Hate? Chicago’s Controversial Monuments and Street NamesNBC Chicago: Tempest Brews Over Renaming of Balbo Drive

Encyclopedia of Chicago: "Who is Balbo?," 1933

Chicago Tribune: Future of Balbo monument, a gift from Mussolini, uncertain

New York Times: BALBO TALKS TO CHICAGO.; Speaking Over Radio From Rome, He Presents Column From Forum.

Chicago Reader: Balbo’s Last Stand

CBS Chicago: Aldermen Propose To Rename Balbo Drive

StreetsBlog Chicago: Blackshirts and Green Signs: Is It Time to Rename Balbo Drive, a Tribute to a Fascist?

TimeOut: Aldermen are considering removing the Balbo monument and renaming Balbo Drive

Encyclopedia of Chicago:Chief Blackhorn and Italo Balbo, 1933
AP: Protesters demand removal of monument to fascist Italo Balbo

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1 hr 4 min
March 30Lois Weisberg: She Curated Chicago
Alyssa tells Vanessa from Reel Relationships about "den mother of the arts" Lois Weisberg.

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Show Notes:
TimeOut: Life after Lois | Lois Weisberg

New York Times: Lois Weisberg, Chicago’s Cultural Connector, Dies at 90

Chicago Magazine: Remembering Lois Weisberg, the Woman Who Curated Chicago

The New Yorker: Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg

PBS: Chicago Stories Lois Weisberg

Governing: Lois Weisberg

Chicago Sun-Times: Lois Weisberg, ‘den mother of the arts’

Chicago Reader: Lois Weisberg: Rest in peace doesn’t cut it

Chicago Reader: The brothers Weisberg

Chicago Reader: The Shakman Variations

Chicago Reader: A Macarena for the Millenium

FT: Lois Weisberg, Chicago arts administrator, 1925-2016

Chicago Tribune: Chicago’s ‘Cows on Parade’ is back for July, celebrating 20-year anniversary with one last roundup

WBEZ: Lois Weisberg: “This is one of the worst things that ever has happened to the city.”

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1 hr 8 min

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Alyssa Dyksterhouse, Chicago tour guide, history lover and research extraordinaire, walks her friends through her favorite well-known and lesser-known moments in Chicago’s quirky past while…