Hear The Podcast Trailer For A New Season Of WBEZ’s Motive - WBEZ Chicago https://www.wbez.org/motive/2020/08/21/motive-season-3-preview
#WBEZ. #Chicago #TheMotiveSeries3
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: What was life in Chicago like in 2000? . “From January to December that year, more than 200 photographers, videographers and journalists captured moments like these to create a time capsule of life in Chicago at the turn of the millennium. The project, called CITY 2000, resulted in more than 500,000 images and nearly 800 audio and video recordings… […]
Here's an old photo of Chicago from a family album - not sure of the exact date, but likely around the 1920s-1930s. I think I see the Tribune tower, and maybe 333 N. Michigan Ave, but not sure where to go from there. Feel free to chip in if you spot any clues or if you know Chicago enough to locate it! #history #photography #chicago #chicagohistory
Edit: We may have figured it out - 25 E Washington St, the Marshall Field Building. Still not sure *when*, but we have *where* at least.
#OnThisDay, 8 May 1865, Dr Mary Harris Thompson founds the Chicago Hospital for Women and Children at a time when one of the city's two hospitals did not admit women patients.
Cool news, Chicago Public Library gets a major grant to help with our Black history archives!
https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-public-library-wins-grant-for-black-history-archives/589bd301-782d-4e7c-a798-61eb171a9753
#libraries #chicago #BlackHistory #archives #chicagohistory #africanamericanhistory
I first heard of it in Ben Hecht's memoir and, thinking it might be just journalistic mythological lore, sought to confirm it. There is a December column in the Chicago Tribune by Burton Rascoe mentioning it and this same author mentions it again in his own memoir. The Chicago Herald and Recorder isn't anywhere digitised but the Chicago historical Society has a microfilm of the 1919 print run. #Chicago #microfilm #ChicagoHistory #VicenteBlascoIbanez #BlascoIbanez #Literature
Grab your coffee and pączki and listen to this week's episode of #UnsungHistory, all about the history of Polish Chicago, with expert guest Dr. Dominic A. Pacyga, author of American Warsaw!
Find it at https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com/polish-chicago/
or anywhere #podcasts are found!
All this month on #UnsungHistory I'm exploring the #history of my favorite city on earth, my home, #Chicago! Join me & expert guests on a trip through stories of #ChicagoHistory, from the #CookCounty Jail to the #EastlandDisaster.
Tune in at https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com or anywhere #podcasts are found! Even long-time Chicago residents (like me!) are certain to learn something new!
Here’s the original photograph, for comparison. My grandpa was a farmer in North Dakota who raised Aberdeen Angus cattle, and he would take the train to Chicago for the national cattleman’s convention. I can imagine him walking the sidewalk at about the same time this photo was taken.
Blues legend Buddy Guy giving a trouble maker what-for at the Checkerboard Lounge, 1982.
#chicago #ChicagoHistory #blues #ChicagoBlues #BuddyGuy #photography
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