In this episode Alyssa tells Hugh about the "State Street Mall."  He spends a lot of time, rightfully baffled. Subscribe, leave a five-star review, tell your friends and follow on Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram Show Notes:  Chicago Tribune: Flashback: The State Street Mall, billed as a car-free shopping mecca, started with high hopes but ended in failure and bus fumes Chicago Tribune: The failure of the State Street Mall Chicago Tribune: Stiltwalkers, a high-diving mule and other efforts to make State Street great again Governing: The Strange, Troubled History of Pedestrian Malls Chicago Sun-Times: Opinion of the The People Chicago Sun-Times: McDonough Opposes State Street Mall Day Chicago Sun-Times: New Plan's Face Lift for Chicago Chicago Sun-Times: Council Unit gets State Street Mall Plan Chicago Sun-Times: Daley Seen Pushing State Street Mall Chicago Sun-Times: Plan Commission Oks State Street Mall Chicago Sun-Times: Pick South Loop for College Chicago Sun-Times: Federal Aid? Chicago Sun-Times: Building Industry's Decline Expected to Last Two Years Chicago Sun-Times: Projects that Never Made It. Chicago Sun-Times: Cows Chicago Sun-Times: State Street Squeeze Chicago Sun-Times: An Enviable Track Record Chicago Sun-Times: State Street Breakdown Chicago Sun-Times: How Those Central City Projects are Coming Along Chicago Sun-Times: State St. Mall One Step Closer Chicago Sun-Times: Mayor OKs Mall revamp - Vows to help State St. business leaders Chicago Sun-Times: State St. Mall's new look may be skimpy Chicago Sun-Times: $30 million State Street Mall boostChicago Sun-Times: End of the road for State St. Mall - Daley calls it a `failure,' backs return to full use Chicago Sun-Times: A great street, but a bad mall - `Failure' spurs city to allow cars on State Chicago Sun-Times: Cars, Perhaps Trolley, To Replace State St. Mall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alyssa tells David Baxter about  the personal life of acclaimed architect Mies van der Rohe.Subscribe, leave a five-star review, tell your friends and follow on Twitter, BlueSky, InstagramShow Notes:CNN: A famous architect’s iconic furniture line gets its first update in decadesFox News: TuckerMies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised EditionThe New Criterion: Is Modernism the Enemy of Mies Van Der Rohe?The Guardian: This article is more than 1 year old The Bauhaus Nazis: the collaborators – and worse – among the design iconsBarcelona® ChairMoMA: Ludwig Mies van der RoheWTTW: Arts & Entertainment Revisiting Farnsworth House, a Masterpiece of Modern ArchitectureNew York Times: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alyssa tells VanderpumpRobs about Chicago's No-Nothing mayor Levi Boone.   Socials:Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram Show Notes Illinois State Register: Election Results Rock Island Argus: No Money Then Inter Ocean: Obit Daily Illinois State Journal: Treason Smithsonian: How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics Abraham Lincoln Papers: Boone, Levi D. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A quick update on Illinois V Trump and other cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are revisiting one of the earliest episodes exploring Chicago's first incidence of civil unrest.  Immigrants have been getting in done here. Chicago is known for what some call "rough and tumble politics". Alyssa talks with friend from college and former coworker John Zinn about Chicago's first incident of civil unrest. Socials:Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram Show Notes: Encyclopedia of Chicago: Lager Beer Riot Chicago Tribune: Chicago’s Lager Beer Riot proved immigrants’ power Chicago Brewseum Brewing Up Chicago Exhibition 1855 Lager Beer Riot Video Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Alyssa gives updates on the rulings from the various cases in the Northern District of Illinois. It's cathartic. Socials:Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lot of stuff is happening in the Federal Courts regarding DHS/ICE/CBP so Alyssa decided to do an emergency update to give an overview of what is happening. If you have any questions please let her know. Today is a big day for weirdos like myself who obsess over the Northern District of Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alyssa is joined by Risen.  We talk about the first blimp which fell out of the sky. Socials:Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram Show Notes: Society For American Baseball Research:July 21, 1919: Horrified White Sox fans witness Wingfoot Express blimp disaster in Chicago NYT: 11 KILLED, 27 HURT IN BLAZING BLIMP'S FALL IN CHICAGO Chicago Sun-Times: This week in history: Goodyear blimp catches fire in Loop Wingfoot Air Express Chicagology: The Red July of 1919 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alyssa is joined by Max Winkler director of The Ed Gein Story to discuss Alyssa's Cameo in said upcoming Netflix series, Max's love of Chicago as well as a riveting cold case that led to divers finding cars in the Chicago River. Socials:Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram Show Notes: Chicago Tribune: With hidden evidence on their minds, unusual dive team takes to the Chicago RiverChicago Tribune: RELATIVES ARE HOPING 24-YEAR MYSTERY OVER Chicago Sun-Times: NW Suburb Couple Missing Chicago Sun-Times: Search Back On for Couple Missing 24 Years Chicago Tribune: POLICE MAKE A NEW DIVE AT 1970S MYSTERY MISSING COUPLE MAY BE IN POND IN LAKE COUNTY Chicago Tribune: POND COMES UP DRY OF CLUES ABOUT MISSING COUPLE Chicago Tribune: NEWS DREDGES UP MEMORIES OF GANG LAKE FOREST WOULD LIKE TO FORGET Chicago Tribune: ROAD TALES RESURFACE FROM ABE TO `THE BLUES BROTHERS,' WACKER HAS LONG LEGACY Chicago Tribune: Curtain of Mystery Cloaks Couple's Disappearance New Nation: 140 cars found in Chicago River amid search for missing couple Motor Biscuit: Divers enter Chicago River over a 1970 cold case and find not 1, but 97 cars Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alyssa tells at Morgan about Fast Edde.  Socials:Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram Show Notes: DOJ: INDICTED IN ALLEGED KICKBACKSCHEME INVOLVING GOLD COAST REAL ESTATE DEAL Chicago Sun-Times: The billionaire behind the scenes in White Sox' stadium plan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alyssa tells at Morgan about Fast Eddie.  We take a digression into the 78. Socials:Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram Show Notes: DOJ: INDICTED IN ALLEGED KICKBACKSCHEME INVOLVING GOLD COAST REAL ESTATE DEAL Chicago Sun-Times: The billionaire behind the scenes in White Sox' stadium plan Ed Burke Episode 2: The Council Wars Betty Loren-Maltese: An Icon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Alyssa tells John Zinn about the legacy of Bozo.   Socials:Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram Show Notes: Chicago Reader: Our Town: Bozo the Clown Chicago Reader: The Bozo Chronicles BOZO AT THE CIRCUS - A Capitol Record-Reader (1946) Classic Chicago Magazine: Bozo, America’s Favorite Clown LA Times: Waiting for Bozo: In Chicago, they take a clown seriously. People: How David Arquette and Billy Corgan's Shared Love of Clowns Led to an Unlikely Partnership (Exclusive) ABC: Battling Bozos WGN: How WGN-TV’s Bozo The Clown came to be LA Times: Bozo Has Left the Building Chicago Tribune: Where’s Bozo? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Labor Day.  In this episode Alyssa tells Molly McAleer about the Haymarket Affair and the origin of the 8-hour work day.  Socials:Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram Show Notes: Illinois Labor History Society: The Haymarket Affair Encyclopedia of Chicago History: Haymarket and May Day WTTW: HAYMARKET AFFAIR HANGINGS Britannica: Haymarket Affair WCCO: Good Question: How did we get the 8-hour work day? Chicago Cop: HAYMARKET SQUARE RIOT Chicago Sun-Times: Haymarket blast shook the world - 100 years later, Chicago remembered Chicago Reader: Haymarket Revisited Chicago Tribune: HAYMARKET RIOT REMEMBERED PBS: The Anarchists and the Haymarket Square Incident Second City Sinners Chicago Tribune: STILL-HEARD VOICES: HAYMARKET MONUMENT GETS LANDMARK STATUS CPD: Haymarket Statue Rededication Ceremony at Police Headquarters The Haymarket Memorial Chicago Tribune: SITE OF HAYMARKET RIOT PROPOSED FOR LABOR PARK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alyssa tells Ken Guy the history of Riverview ParkSubscribe, leave a five-star review, and tell all your friends. Socials:Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram EmailShow Notes: Chicago Tribune: Photos: Remembering Riverview ParkChicago Tribune: Remembering the Chicago amusement parks that filled summertime with thrills and spills and waterChicago Tribune: Remembering Riverview Park, 50 years laterWTTW: “A Rite of Passage”: The History, Rides, and Legacy of Riverview ParkChicago Tribune: RIVERVIEW`S ATTRACTIONSChicago Tribune: GOODMAN`S `RIVERVIEW` IS REALLY A STORY OF AMERICAChicago Reader: Exhilarating Highs, Crashing LowsSeattle Weekly: God of HellWTTW: Amusement Parks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alyssa is joined by Hugh Hugh Yeman to discuss the community policing effort known as WhistleSTOP.  SHOW NOTES: Chicago Sun-Times: Ann Landers Chicago Sun-Times: Carson City Chicago Sun-Times: 5th Ward Chicago Sun-Times: Community Policing Chicago Sun-Times: Ann Landers 2 Chicago Sun-Times: For Protection on the Streets just whistle Chicago Sun-Times: Raising a Ruckus on Street Crime then Acting Against It Chicago Sun-Times: Organizers Give a Hoot about Stopping Assaults. Chicago Maroon: Community Organization Revitalizes WhistleStop Program for Violence Prevention Chicago Sun-Times: Police chief blows whistle on crime Chicago Tribune: Lake View citizens' 'Whistlestop Day' Chicago Tribune: Start Whistle Battle on Bandits Chicago Tribune: Hyde Park Dwellers Hunt Solution to Crime Woes Chicago Tribune: S. Side whistle campaign cuts crime Chicago Tribune: Neighbors join to blow whistle on criminals Chicago Tribune: Neighbors join to blow whistle on criminalsUofC Facebook Chicago Sun-Times: Michigan Avenue, once a picture-perfect postcard, is now a depressing mess Chicago Sun-Times: Cubs refuse Sox' stadium sharing plan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am joined by Vanessa from Reel Relationships to talk and the history leading up to the first Cubs Night Game.  It is not as simple as turning on the lights.  In this episode we name drop all the expected political players, talks about the idea of making Wrigleyville dry and discover the Block 37 of sportsball. Show Notes: Chicago Sun-Times: 100 years ago: The bombing of Chicago’s federal building History.Com: Why the Star-Spangled Banner is Played At Sporting Events CBS Chicago: On this day 36 years ago: Lights go on for Cubs at Wrigley Field for first time WGN : Why the Cubs’ first night game anniversary is a little different in 2023 WTTW: Let There Be Light: The Cubs' First Night Game at Wrigley Illinois Supreme Court: Turning on the lights at Wrigley Field DNA Info: A History Of Night Games At Wrigley Field, And Why Cubs Want More Of Them Baseball Hall of Fame: AAGPBL shined a light at Wrigley Field in 1943 Chicago Sun-Times: Stadium plan has eye on 2 tenants: Sox, Bears Chicago Sun-Times: Facts muddle sports scene for Chicago Chicago Sun-Times: Cubs clearly want to stay - Survey suggests owners sincere on Wrigley Field Chicago Sun-Times: Cubs to Busch? It's a dark day Chicago Sun-Times: Mayor rips league on Cubs game shift Chicago Sun-Times: NL's playoff plan for Cubs just a con job on city, fans Chicago Sun-Times: When the Sox leave . . . - Bridgeport may be sadder but wiser post-Comiskey Chicago Sun-Times: A hard night's rock at city's new nightclub Chicago Sun-Times: Cubs may try 4: 30 start - Time shift to lure after-work crowds Chicago Sun-Times: Are Cubs ready to light up? - Lights a must for 4: 30 starts, club exec says Chicago Sun-Times: Channel 9 boss calls foul on Cubs' plan for late start Chicago Sun-Times: City makes plans for night game traffic at Wrigley Chicago Sun-Times: Senators OK postseason night games Chicago Sun-Times: Wrigleyville: No, no, 18 times no! Chicago Sun-Times: City aide suggests 5: 30 night games at Wrigley Field Chicago Sun-Times: Sun never sets on Cub fans Chicago Sun-Times: Cubs light foes aim postcards at mayor Chicago Sun-Times: Wrigleyville issues congestion report Chicago Sun-Times: Wrigley lights a winner - Foes blast survey - Cubs hail `mandate' Chicago Sun-Times: Mayor to set terms for Cubs night ballChicago Sun-Times: `Dry' threat vs. Cub lights - Foes ready call for liquor ban Chicago Sun-Times: Mayor OKs Cubs lights - Residents hit 18-game plan Chicago Sun-Times: Sawyer backs Wrigley lights - action stalled Chicago Sun-Times: A death blow to Wrigley Field lights denied Chicago Sun-Times: Rush calls for more work on Cubs night-game plan Chicago Sun-Times: Stadia Pursuit game is anything but trivial portChicago Sun-Times: Lights out? - Irate over editorial, aldermen threaten Cubs night games Chicago Sun-Times: Sawyer lobbies more aldermen for Cubs lights Chicago Sun-Times: Panel lights up Cubs - 8 night games get '88 OK - Wrigleyville vows battle Chicago Sun-Times: Electrifying! - 29-19 vote OKs Cub night games Chicago Tribune: How aldermen voted Chicago Sun-Times: Sawyer firmly for Cubs lights despite vote against them Chicago Sun-Times: Cub lights make big splash Chicago Sun-Times: The big washout - Rainout delays debut of Cub lights era Chicago Tribune: Share this obituary: Daniel Levin History Channel: Lights go on at Wrigley MLB: Banned from the World Series? It almost happened ... to Wrigley Field Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twenty-one years ago a driver working the the Dave Mathews Band dropped 800lbs of poop which landed on a boat full of people enjoying an architecture tour. Alyssa tells ⁠Molly McAleer⁠ and Captain Scoot all the details. Show Notes: ⁠Chicago Tribune: Band’s driver denies drenching boat⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Tour boat hit with raw sewage // 2 large buses on bridge blamed for discharge that sent 5 to hospital⁠ ⁠Chicago Sum-Times: Complaint links rock band to dumped sewage // Dave Matthews Band denies involvement in tour boat defilement⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Daley: Go tough on Dave Matthews driver // Mayor still likes group despite alleged sewage dumping⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Band's attitude reeks⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Bus' waste dumping leads alderman to call for crackdown⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Matthews Band in harmony with clean-river efforts // $100,000 gift to begin 'healing process' after bus dumps sewage⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Boat tour guest sues Matthews band⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Dave Matthews driver to face criminal charges⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Matthews band driver charged in river dumping // Band faces $70,000 suit for summer's Kinzie bridge incident⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Tour boat owners sue Dave Matthews Band⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Bus driver pleads guilty to dumping raw sewage // Dave Matthews Band cuts ties to employee who sloshed boaters⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Matthews band dumps cash into settlement⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: $200,000 apology ends waste-dumping suit // Dave Matthews Band also donated to Park District, river group⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Dave Matthews 'couldn't be more sorry' for bus-dumping⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: Nevada family, Matthews Band settle suit over dumped waste⁠ ⁠Chicago Sun-Times: City's surveillance cameras are making Chicago safer⁠ ⁠Case Text: Mercury Skyline Yacht Charters v. the Dave Matthews Band⁠ ⁠Block Club Chicago: Dave Matthews Tour Bus Dumped 800 Pounds Of Poop On People Taking A Chicago River Cruise 19 Years Ago Today⁠ ⁠Mercury Lawsuit⁠ ⁠Fox 32 Chicago: Dave Matthews Band tour bus feces incident remembered 19 years later with plaque dedication Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am joined by Vanessa from Reel Relationships to talk and the history leading up to the first Cubs Night Game.  It is not as simple as turning on the lights.  Chicago Sun-Times: 100 years ago: The bombing of Chicago’s federal building History.Com: Why the Star-Spangled Banner is Played At Sporting EventsCBS Chicago: On this day 36 years ago: Lights go on for Cubs at Wrigley Field for first time WGN : Why the Cubs’ first night game anniversary is a little different in 2023 WTTW: Let There Be Light: The Cubs' First Night Game at WrigleyIllinois Supreme Court: Turning on the lights at Wrigley Field DNA Info: A History Of Night Games At Wrigley Field, And Why Cubs Want More Of Them Baseball Hall of Fame: AAGPBL shined a light at Wrigley Field in 1943 Chicago Sun-Times: Stadium plan has eye on 2 tenants: Sox, Bears Chicago Sun-Times: Facts muddle sports scene for Chicago Chicago Sun-Times: Cubs clearly want to stay - Survey suggests owners sincere on Wrigley Field Chicago Sun-Times: Cubs to Busch? It's a dark day Chicago Sun-Times: Mayor rips league on Cubs game shift Chicago Sun-Times: NL's playoff plan for Cubs just a con job on city, fans Chicago Sun-Times: When the Sox leave . . . - Bridgeport may be sadder but wiser post-Comiskey Chicago Sun-Times: A hard night's rock at city's new nightclub Chicago Sun-Times: Cubs may try 4: 30 start - Time shift to lure after-work crowds Chicago Sun-Times: Are Cubs ready to light up? - Lights a must for 4: 30 starts, club exec says Chicago Sun-Times: Channel 9 boss calls foul on Cubs' plan for late start Chicago Sun-Times: City makes plans for night game traffic at Wrigley Chicago Sun-Times: Senators OK postseason night games Chicago Sun-Times: Wrigleyville: No, no, 18 times no! Chicago Sun-Times: City aide suggests 5: 30 night games at Wrigley Field Chicago Sun-Times: Sun never sets on Cub fans Chicago Sun-Times: Cubs light foes aim postcards at mayor Chicago Sun-Times: Wrigleyville issues congestion report Chicago Sun-Times: Wrigley lights a winner - Foes blast survey - Cubs hail `mandate' Chicago Sun-Times: Mayor to set terms for Cubs night ball Chicago Sun-Times: `Dry' threat vs. Cub lights - Foes ready call for liquor ban Chicago Sun-Times: Mayor OKs Cubs lights - Residents hit 18-game plan Chicago Sun-Times: Sawyer backs Wrigley lights - action stalled Chicago Sun-Times: A death blow to Wrigley Field lights denied Chicago Sun-Times: Rush calls for more work on Cubs night-game plan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After enlisting the assistance of Chat GPT to attempt to write a script--which was a fail-- Alyssa is joined by David Baxter to talk about Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III. Show Notes:Chicago Magazine: Has a Chicago Mayor Ever Been Assassinated?PBS: Carter Harrison (1825-1893)Chicago Sun-Times: This week in history: World’s Fair ends in tragedyChicago Reader: The mayor’s assassinClassic Chicago Magazine:Murder in the Kentucky ColonyChicago Public Library: Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III Inaugural Address, 1879Chicago Public Library: Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III BiographyEncyclopedia of Chicago: Assassination of Carter HarrisonChicago Sun-Times: This week in history: Mayor Carter Harrison shot in mansionChicago Public Library: Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III Inaugural Address, 1893Second City SinnersWBEZ: From banning the sale of rancid meat to vetoing a snap curfew, Chicago mayors have long flexed political muscle over proposed lawsWGN: Three Chicago tales of betrayal, jealousy and murder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode Alyssa tells David Baxter about a maritime tragedy worse than the Titanic which happened 205 years ago SHOW NOTES: ⁠Coast Guard⁠ ⁠Smithsonian: The Eastland Disaster Killed More Passengers Than the Titanic and the Lusitania. Why Has It Been Forgotten?⁠ ⁠Curbed: Demolition of the former Harpo Studios building closes a chapter of Chicago history⁠ ⁠History.Com: Hundreds Drown in Eastland Distaster⁠ ⁠Chicago Law Bulletin: 100 years later, the jury convenes in Eastland Disaster⁠ ⁠Eastland: An Original Musical Watch Party Montage⁠ ⁠WTTW Eastland Disaster⁠ Socials: ⁠Alyssa's Twitter⁠ ⁠Oh Malort! Twitter⁠ ⁠Alyssa's IG⁠ ⁠Oh Malort! IG⁠ ⁠Oh Malort! TikTok⁠ ⁠David's Socials Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices