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Where did the term 'Chicagoland' come from?
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How did Hollywood Beach become Chicago’s ‘gay beach’?
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Why does Chicago use Comic Sans on some elevator inspection certificates?
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Does Chicago have a Filipino neighborhood?
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Why are there helicopters flying over my neighborhood every night?
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Why does Chicago have a monument named for fascist leader Italo Balbo?
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Standing on history: Who built Chicago’s WPA sidewalks?
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‘This is how I speak’: The influence of the Black Chicago accent
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How has the Black Chicago accent retained its Southern roots?
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The story of the Lady Elgin, the deadliest shipwreck in Great Lakes history
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What are Chicago area lighthouses used for?
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How early Black Chicagoans used photography to redefine their image
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What was Chicago's first art gallery?
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Chicago came under martial law after the Great Fire. Did it help?
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The ‘windmill capital of the world’ used to be down the road from Chicago
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Why aren’t there wind turbines in Lake Michigan?
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No cars, no road salt: How one Midwestern community avoids salt all winter
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How does a mild winter affect Chicago’s economy?
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What was it like for women working in Hoover’s FBI?
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Why did the FBI recruit girls from Catholic high schools?
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How Ella Jenkins’ Chicago childhood shaped her iconic children’s music
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What's the first Chicago public school named in honor of a Black person?
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Why did Chicago widen Ashland Avenue?
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Why is Ashland Avenue sometimes Ashland Boulevard?
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We can’t name ‘em all, but here are some of Chicago’s greatest films
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From ‘The Fugitive’ to ‘The Dark Knight,’ what’s the best movie filmed in Chicago?
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‘Weather is cool’: Weird Chicago weather, from northern lights to water spouts
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When is it no longer ‘cooler by the lake’?
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‘It felt like a secret’: Remembering Chicago’s Berlin nightclub
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What’s the story behind Berlin nightclub’s huge mural?
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Krampus is coming: The Christmas demon’s Chicago connection
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“A Christmas Carol”: An amateur actor’s journey into a Chicago holiday tradition
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The first Black-owned airport in the U.S. was in Robbins, Illinois
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A museum, a mayor and a road: How Lake Shore Drive became a runway ... intentionally
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How one organization is transforming Englewood’s vacant lots
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Want to buy the vacant lot next door? It might take awhile
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Does your iguana need x-rays? A local exotic animal hospital can help
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A monkey on the loose: Odd animal sightings in Chicago
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Beyond the settlement: Helping Chicago’s many survivors of police torture
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What impact do big payouts have on survivors of police torture and misconduct?
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Two-and-a-half minutes: Pilot John Ginley’s dance with disaster
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‘Mayday, mayday, mayday’: How many planes have landed on Lake Shore Drive?
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A Curious City Halloween: Scary stories from spooked Chicagoans
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Gone and nearly forgotten: Lincoln Park’s High Bridge
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The unsung legacy of Margaret Burroughs: ‘We called her mama’
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Chicago is a jazz city, but where are the jazz radio stations?
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How a group of volunteers saved a rare Illinois wildflower
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What’s that dead zone in the 19th Ward?
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The tale of the two-flat
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‘Women adrift’: How single women lived independently in early Chicago
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‘Friendship set to music’: Curious City goes square dancing on the South Side
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Square dance clubs used to be bumping on the weekends
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Is your local mall dying, thriving or evolving?
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What was Ford City Mall like in its heyday?
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What happened after a dangerous year inside Cook County Jail
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What is that supply tent outside of Cook County Jail?
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Apple slices are a nearly forgotten piece of Chicago pastry history
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Do pigs need rescuing?
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What happened to Chicago’s presidential pig?
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What’s the oldest book in circulation at the Chicago Public Library?
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School is in session, and we put the CPS butter cookie to the test
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School lunch used to pass the test
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What’s the history of Chinese gangs in Chicago?
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What a failed robbery from 1951 tells us about Chicago crime
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The other organizations empowering Chicago’s Chinatown
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What happened to Chinatown’s family associations?
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Is women’s pro softball here to stay?
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A league of Chicago’s Own: The other women’s pro league of the 1940s
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Car, bike, public transit: What’s the best way to get around town?
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Who thought traffic circles were a good idea? Do we need them?
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The curious case of the Swami Vivekananda Way street sign
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Chicago’s LGBTQ+ library is a space for people to ‘find themselves in the shelves’
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Where are the girls? A look at early lesbian nightlife in Chicago
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Yes, people really do win pledge drive giveaways at WBEZ
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Do people actually donate cars to public radio?
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There’s nature in Chicago. Go bathe in it.
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Are healthy Chicago trees getting the ax?
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‘Have you checked on your ancestors?’ This woman brings dignity to deceased Black Chicagoans
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Exploring the segregated past of Chicago cemeteries
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What happened to Chicago's Japanese community?
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Car towed? Listen to this on your way down to Chicago’s Central Auto Pound
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Lower Wacker Drive: A uniquely Chicago street
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Schools, Water Plants and City Hall: We search for Chicago’s nuclear fallout shelters
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Why does Chicago have a law prohibiting nuclear weapons?
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Even when nothing goes wrong, moving is trash
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‘Pure chaos’: Why did Chicagoans once move on the same day?
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The complicated statue of labor leader Samuel Gompers
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Maria Rodriguez: From fashion designer to restaurateur
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Like NYC and Paris, Chicago was a hub for fashion designers
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How sweet the sound: The history of Evanston folk coffeehouse Amazingrace
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‘An underground subculture’: How Chicago coffeehouses shaped the folk revival movement
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You May Also Like: Stories Without End
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Is extremist ideology still fringe?
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How much influence did white supremacist groups have on Chicago housing?
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What's up with the Chicago's feral cats?
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“Enemy Alien”: How Chicago photojournalist Jun Fujita avoided Japanese internment camps
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Restriction and sanctuary: A look at Chicago mayors’ wildly different approaches to immigrants
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The Life and Legacy of Alice Hamilton
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How does honoring the dead impact the environment?
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Why is there a cemetery at O’Hare Airport?
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