Alyssa Dyksterhouse, Chicago tour guide, history lover and research extraordinaire, walks her friends through her favorite well-known and lesser-known moments in Chicago’s quirky past while exploring each story's parallels to current affairs.
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Alyssa Dyksterhouse, Chicago tour guide, history lover and research extraordinaire, walks her friends through her favorite well-known and lesser-known moments in Chicago’s quirky past while exploring each story's parallels to current affairs.
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
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Oh, Malort!
Alyssa Dyksterhouse, Chicago tour guide, history lover and research extraordinaire, walks her friends through her favorite well-known and lesser-known moments in Chicago’s quirky past while exploring each story's parallels to current affairs.
