In the 1990s, the Daley administration ended a program that had successfully reduced gang violence in neighborhoods such as Pilsen and Little Village. Today, organizations like Enlace Chicago continue to struggle for the resources needed to address the problems produced by political neglect.

In the Spring of 1990 Andrew Apter and Moishe Postone were relatively new faculty at the University of Chicago. Both would go on to become highly regarded teachers and scholars.

Songs about intoxication have a long history, from NWA's Dope Man

to Loretta Lynn's Honky Tonk Girl to Henry Purcell's The Macedon Youth.

The terrace at University of Wisconsin's Memorial Union is a spectacular

place to study with a pitcher of beer or read a copy of The Onion.

In Providence, Rhode Island of the eighties one could buy a Coffee Cabinet before going to a hear music at Club Rocket, or take Amtrak south to see the same band at d.c. space in our nation's capital.

Little Italy's San Gennaro festival has been the backdrop of multiple

movies, including Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, where an intern got to spin

cotton candy.

A swindle involving American Express Travelers checks allows purchase of a portable stereo with double cassette tape player.

In 1975, President Ford signed a law allowing women to enter the service academies. Facing enormous hostility, almost half of the women who entered West Point in these early years, dropped out, but one woman who made it through was Sara Potecha.

Porky's drive in opened on St. Paul's university avenue in 1953 and closed in 2011. It's space age building and neon pig's head now reside at The Little Log House Pioneer Village in rural Hastings.

From 1983 to 1992, Medusa's nightclub just south of Wrigley Field welcomed kids of all kinds to celebrate their freakiness on the dance floor.