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Alyssa tells about a chap dubbed "Spider Dan" who, among other things, scaled the Sear Tower using suction cups on Memorial Day in 1981. 

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In this episode Alyssa tells Vanessa from Reel Relationships about the legacy of  The Berghoff.  

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CNN: Gloria Steinem, In Her Own Words

Chicago Tribune: Historic Berghoff to close
NPR: The Berghoff, A Chicago Institution, to Close

JStore: “No Unescorted Ladies Will Be Served”

Chicago Tribune: Historic Berghoff to close

Chicago Tribune: Berghoff, beer and Chicago

The Berghoff Family Cookbook: From Our Table to Yours, Celebrating a Century of Entertaining

The Berghoff

Restaurant Business: Chicago's Berghoff Restaurant sold

Chicago Tribune: Farewell, Berghoff

Chicago Sun-Times: The Berghoff restaurant reopens Monday after a year light on happy-hour and lunch patrons

The History of the Berghoff Restaurant in Chicago's Loop since 1898.
Boston University: Fragments of the Past

Literary Hub: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gloria Steinem Fought For Your Right to Get a Beer

NY Food Story: Segregating Restaurants How Women Found a Place at the Bar and Table

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Earlier in the week, before the hot debate was does the Pope prefer the Cubs or the Sox, Trump took time in the Oval Office to talk about the Obama Presidential Center.  After months of seeing weirdos on the internet spreading theories about what is happening with this project I thought I would tell Hugh about the history and dispel some...inaccuracies. 

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Politico: ‘It’s Been Hard Opposing Barack Obama’
WTTW: Are Appeals Court Judges Kicking the Can on Obama Center Lawsuit?
WTTW: South Side Coalition Tells Obama Center Obstructionists: Enough Is Enough
WTTW: Work Begins in Jackson Park to Pave the Way for Obama Presidential Center
WTTW: After Delays, Construction on Obama Center Begins in Chicago
Chicago Tribune: Park advocates make another legal argument against Obama Presidential Center even as construction continues
Chicago Reader: The Obama Center: opening in 2025
DNA INFO: Obama Library Land Swap Approved by City Council
32 Fox: Chicago labor union spars over Trump’s claims about Obama Presidential Center
Chicago Tribune: Unspoken issue at heart of Obama center opposition: Race
Friends of the Parks statement regarding the Supreme Court rejection of Protect Our Parks’ petition to stop construction of Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park
Newsweek: Obama Library: Behind Schedule, Over Budget and Mired in LawsuitsBlack Enterprise: Obama Presidential Library Contractor Alleges Racial Discrimination In LawsuitTrump Quote
Chicago Reader: A lawsuit to prevent the Obama Presidential Center’s ‘illegal land grab’ in Jackson Park is moving forward
Chicago Reader: The Obama Center: opening in 2025
The Brian Kilmeade Show: Obama Presidential Center rocked by $40M racial bias lawsuit
Benny Johnson: YIKES: Obama Presidential Library In RUINS! Crumbling, Cracking, Hit With Lawsuits and Forever Delay

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Alyssa finishes telling  Morgan Stringer about the plight of Abraham Bolden. Related topics include: the JFK assassination, possible weaponization of the government, people being sent to facilities with possibly no release date. Additionally, we're gonna discuss some recurring characters from the Fred Hampton trial.

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New York Times: Edward Hanrahan, Prosecutor Tied to ’69 Panthers Raid, Dies at 88
Wednesday Journal: Hanrahan’s life transcended ’69 Panther raid
Chicago Sun-Times: First White House Black Secret Service agent still trying to clear his nameChicago Sun-Times: It’s long past time to finally clear first White House Black Secret Service agent’s nameThe Echo from Dealey Plaza: The true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFKAbraham Bolden, 1st Af.-Am. Secret Service agent, conveys the truth.

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Alyssa tells Ken Guy the history of breweries in Chicago.  

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Block 37

1855 Lager Beer Riots.

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Serious Eats: A Brief History of Beer in Chicago

Provi: Chicago Beer History: A Timeline

The New Chicagoan: History: Old Style is Not Chicago's Beer and Other Chicago Beer Factoids 

University of Chicago: Beer in Chicago

Chicago Public Library:Beer, 1900-2014: Technology That Changed Chicago

Chicago Public Library: Beer, 1855-1900: Technology That Changed Chicago

Chicago History Museum: Enjoy a Cold One

Forgotten Chicago: Bygone Breweries

WTTW: Almost a Century Later, a Classic Chicago Beer Makes Its Triumphant Return

Chicago Public Library: Beer, 1830-1855: Technology That Changed Chicago

Beer and Brewing: The Oxford Companion to Beer definition of Chicago,

Chicago Tribune: A history of Chicago’s beer scene: How the Windy City came into its own

All About Beer: Beer: A History of Brewing in Chicago

Chicagology: Chicago Breweries

Chicago Detours: Chicago Craft Beer History

Encyclopedia of Chicago: Breweries

Chicago Magazine: Old Style: The Chicago Beer That Isn’t

Chicago Humanities Festival: Beer History with the Brewseum

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In this episode Alyssa tells Pat about James Caesar Petrillo. He has a bandshell named after him in Grant Park but what do we really know about the man?  Answer, he is an idiot.  Listen to learn all the ways this becomes evident.  

We also talk about tube socks and Van Halen.

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Lea Act

New York Times: THE PETRILLO LAW DECISION

New York Times: JAMES PETRILLO DEAD; LED MUSICIANS

James C. Petrillo: America's Music Czar

Lancaster Eagle Gazette:Remember When: James C. Petrillo changes American music

AFM Local 802: Another Take on James Petrillo Was he actually a champion of all musicians?

AFM Local 802: The Silence Was Deafening What happens when musicians strike the record labels

World Radio History

WTTW: James C. Petrillo

Van Halen: Right Now

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Alyssa tells David Baxter the real life story behind the musical Chicago.  

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Grease: The OG Broadway Transfer

William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson: Illinois Most Corrupt Politician

Show Notes:

Chicago Tribune: Silent 1927 'Chicago' to make a musical comeback

Chicagology: Maurine Dallas Watkins

Chicago Tribune: A Tribune reporter wrote the hit play ‘Chicago’ after covering Cook County murder trials. Decades later, we owe her an obituary.

Chicago Tribune: Vintage Chicago Tribune: Murder, mayhem and ‘all that jazz’ — the real women who inspired Oscar winner ‘Chicago’

Today: Obscure story by 'Chicago' playwright discovered

Stratford Festival Reviews:The Woman Behind the Women of Chicago

Ontario Stage: Maurine Watkins, The Woman Behind ‘Chicago’

New York Theatre Guide: The history behind the musical ‘Chicago’: How 1920s crime and vaudeville inspired the show

Chicago Tribune: Vintage Chicago Tribune: ‘Prettiest woman ever accused of murder in Chicago

The Script

Catherine Sheehy on Maurine Dallas Watkins - Mondays at Beinecke, February 21, 2022

Playbill: After 80 Years, So Help Me God! Makes Manhattan Bow

Chicago Magazine: The Girls of Murder City, by Douglas Perry

Mexican Breakfast

Toni Collette sings "Roxie" in Chicago audition

He Had It Coming: Four Murderous Women and the Reporter Who Immortalized Their Stories

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After they reminisce about workplace email hijinks, Alyssa gives John an update on the Mike Madigan trial, the closing of the Hard Rock Cafe, and the takeover of the Kennedy Center then they take a trip to Zion, Illinois which was founded as a theocracy. 

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AP: The Earth is Flat

Cracked: 1920s Illinois Lived In Fear Of The Priest-King Of The Flat Earth

New York Times: SURE EARTH IS FLAT, SAYS ZION'S OVERSEER; Voliva Declares He Can 'Down Any Modern Astronomer in Less Than Thirty Minutes.'

Daily Beast: When a Flat Earther Refused to Concede and All Hell Broke Loose

Chicago Reader: When Zion Ruled the Waves

Chicago Reader: The Devil Inside

People of Zion Only.

Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

Reshaping Performance Spaces: Embracing Change at the Kennedy Center

The Reach Expansion (Kennedy Center)

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Alyssa tells Pat all about the time Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, was torn apart after discovering an ACTUAL Nazi was a part of their community. 

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It's Okay to Punch a Nazi

Fascism Frenzy

KKK in Chikago: It's a Okay to Dox a Racist

Show Notes:

Chicago Magazine: The Nazi of Oak Park

Chicago Magazine: The Nazi Hunter

Chicago Tribune: REMEMBERING NAZI CAMPS

Chicago Tribune: Author discusses Oak Park’s Nazi at Holocaust Museum in Skokie

Chicago Tribune: GERMANS WON`T CHARGE EX-SS GUARD, OFFICIALS SAY

Los Angeles Times: The World : W. Germans Free Ex-Nazi

UPI: A former Nazi death camp guard has been removed...

UPI: A man accused of concealing his past as a.Nazi

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