Chicago History Podcast @chicagohistorypod.bsky.social

Stories about the Greatest City in the World. Listen wherever you enjoy podcasts.

Me: Ugh. No more flavored coffee pods.

Also Me: Oooh! Chocolate Peanut Butter!
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After seeing this today, I wish I had watched "Paper Girls" on Amazon Prime when it was released. #OneAndDone
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Want to learn more about the Schlitz tied houses?

Episode 616 - Chicago's Schlitz Tied Houses share.google/Kpspz0YgTjhYRJ4UC
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I enjoy being out in the amazing city of Chicago and realizing I'm right by a former Schlitz tied house. Tied houses were saloons usually owned by a brewery and only sold that brewery’s beer, a practice outlawed after prohibition. When you go to a tap room today and see a "guest beer"? That's why.
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Back when he was still billed as "John Cougar," John Mellencamp made his Chicago area debut at B'Ginnings on Golf Road in Schaumburg.

Episode 822 - B'Ginnings: Where Schaumburg Rocked the Suburbs
bit.ly/47Nh1q1
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Tomorrow. New episode.
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"Good news. We got you booked at Poplar Creek outside of Chicago for August 10th. Two shows. 2pm and 8pm."

"That's great! Are the ads ready? We're pictured in the ads, right?"

"Uh... no."

"Well, then what is in the ads?"

"Uh... cigarettes."

from the Chicago Tribune - July 18, 1980
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Doing research for an upcoming episode, I discovered that a dozen or so Chicago-area clubs hosted mud wrestling once or twice a week in 1980. Huh. Just when you think you know a town.

Do any of you remember watching live mud wrestling in Chicago? What was the venue?
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Wrigley Field is hosting its 1st-ever volleyball games, featuring women’s college powerhouses. blockclubchi.co/4tiefkO
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A few favorites from today's #NoKings rally in Chicago.
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The goal should be to get through life without being referred to at any time as "historically unpopular."

time.com/article/2026/03/28/-no-kings-rally-trump/

#NoKingsChicago #NoKings
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Keeping it classy.

www.npr.org/2026/03/27/nx-s1-5763863/hegseth-soldiers-promotions
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Tomorrow's "The Women Who Built Chicago" tours are sold out! Shout out to @6figga-dilla.bsky.social, Nicka Sewell-Smith, and the team at Ancestry for putting this event together.

SPECIAL EPISODE - The Women Who Built Chicago with genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith
bit.ly/4sPpEs4

#WomenWhoBuiltChicago
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Happy Joe Jackson "Big World" Day to all who celebrate. Released 40 years ago today, this three-sided vinyl album (the fourth side is intentionally blank) still gets plenty of spins around here.
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The latest column from @leebey1.bsky.social in the @chicago.suntimes.com looks at efforts to revitalize an area that has seen some rough years.

chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-design/2026/03/21/chicago-west-side-madison-street-corridor-study-shine
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Dinah Washington attended Wendell Phillips High in Chicago. She launched her career winning a contest at the Regal Theater in Bronzeville, later becoming the "Queen of the Blues."

SPECIAL EPISODE - Women Who Built Chicago w/ genealogist @neeksmit.bsky.social
bit.ly/4sPpEs4

#WomenWhoBuiltChicago
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Vivian G. Harsh was Chicago's first Black librarian. From 1932–1958, she led the George Cleveland Hall Branch, building the "Special Negro Collection," later the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection.

SPECIAL EPISODE - The Women Who Built Chicago with genealogist @neeksmit.bsky.social
bit.ly/4sPpEs4
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Chicagoans - don't spend all that money on a fancy fast moving electric bike and then not get some kind of lighting system to make yourself visible during night riding. Signed, Old Man with Bad Eyesight
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I want to befriend a graphic designer named Philip so I can refer to him as "Gradient Phil."
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Join me Wed Mar 11, 6:30-9p at Katherine Anne Confections (Logan Square, Armitage @ California) for Chicago trivia! Categories: TV/movies, history, places, candy, music + more. Top 2 teams win KAC gift certificates.

Teams of 4 or fewer. Limited spots. Sign up!

www.eventbrite.com/e/tell-me-smore-trivia-tickets-1983644949442
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One of the most heartbreaking photos from the Eastland Disaster in Chicago - that of a fireman holding the lifeless body of a child - was captured by Jun Fujita.

Learn more about Fujita's life and work in the latest episode of the podcast.
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Pictured: The Illinois Army National Guard question a Black man during the racial violence that broke out in Chicago in 1919. Photograph by Jun Fujita; Chicago History Museum, ICHi-065477
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From the Eastland Disaster to the 1919 Race Riots to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Jun Fujita was there, camera in hand, documenting it all.

Hear more about Fujita's life and work in the latest episode of the podcast.

(photo info below)
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Episode 821 - Behind the Camera: Jun Fujita's Chicago with author Graham Harrison Lee is available wherever you enjoy podcasts.
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Another entertaining book launch at Book Cellar in Lincoln Square with authors Linda J. Hull and @keirgraff.bsky.social with their new collab "I Did Not Kill My Husband."

Graff wrote the book "Chicago's Fine Arts Building: Music, Magic, and Murder" discussed on the podcast.

#SupportLocalBookstores
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I have never noticed these plaques on the SE corner of Michigan Avenue and Wacker. Nicely done, Chicago. I'd love to see these all over the city to alert passers-by to cool history tidbits.
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We should probably have realized when they insisted we call the Department of Defense, the Department of War.
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I'm a little shocked that Pink and Carey Hart announced a separation, all to distract everyone from the fact that our government keeps acting super shady regarding the Epstein files. If you've got nothing to hide...
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"None of it is true but we've been hiding / deleting the files anyway" isn't a good defense. Seems a little... sus.
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Wisconsin Steel covered 260 acres, supplying steel for International Harvester’s truck and farm equipment operations. James Hickman was working there when he heard the news something was wrong at his home.

Ep. 820 - People Wasn't Made To Burn: The James Hickman Story
bit.ly/3OvfVsa
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