Chicago City Clerk: Valencia preserves Chicago history with 800 newly digitized City Council audio recordings now available to the public. “Chicagoans now have an opportunity to take a deeper dive into the history of their city government as Clerk Anna Valencia will announce the launch of a webpage with more than 800 newly digitized audio recordings at 12:00 p.m. today during a panel discussion […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/08/chicago-city-clerk-valencia-preserves-chicago-history-with-800-newly-digitized-city-council-audio-recordings-now-available-to-the-public/#ChicagoHistory
"When Chicago pawned its parking meters"
Chicago has restrictions on what it can do to improve its transit situation due to a stupid contact it signed.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5642708/chicago-parking-meter-privitization
#transit #Chicago #ChicagoHistory #NPR #PlanetMoney #podcast
‘Dining Out’ traces a century of queer restaurants—starting in Chicago
When Erik Piepenburg thinks of the late-night Chicago diners where he came of age, he remembers the chatter, the flirting and the food that always arrived hot. In the ‘90s, Piepenburg lived in Northalsted, working the evening shift at NBC Tower and heading …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Dining #book #chicagohistory
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2412076/dining-out-traces-a-century-of-queer-restaurants-starting-in-chicago/
Good morning from Elijah Wentworth, often considered the first non-Indigenous permanent settler of #JeffersonPark here in #Chicago.
In 1830, he opened the Wentworth Tavern near what is now Milwaukee and Lawrence Avenues, kicking off the beginning of the area's development. Yup, our neighborhood was built around alcohol!
He built a large, 2-story, log tavern and the rest is history! https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170518/jefferson-park/throwback-thursday-elijah-wentworth-jefferson-park-history-first-resident/
started a #wikipedia article on #Chicago businesswoman Ora Hanson Snyder (1876-1948), founder of Mrs. Snyder's Candy Company in 1909; "I can't make all the candy in the world, so I just make the best of it" was one of her mottos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ora_Hanson_Snyder @wikiwomeninred #Confectioners @chicagomuseum #ChicagoHistory
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
:antifa: :fcknzs:
#FightBack #antifascisthistory #ChristianPicciolini #antiracistskinheads #ChicagoHistory #punk #farright #extrêmedroite
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… […]
Filmmaker and Author talk about Baseball Love Letter "LAST COMISKEY"
“Last Comiskey” represents a mutual love letter to the final Major League Baseball season at Chicago's Old Comiskey Park. The passion project began with a documentary by Matt Flesch, soon to be accompanied by Ken Smoller's book....
#baseball #chicago #ChicagoHistory #ChicagoWhiteSox #ComiskeyPark #history
Filmmaker and Author talk about Baseball Love Letter "LAST COMISKEY"
“Last Comiskey” represents a mutual love letter to the final Major League Baseball season at Chicago's Old Comiskey Park. The passion project began with a documentary by Matt Flesch, soon to be accompanied by Ken Smoller's book....
#baseball #chicago #ChicagoHistory #ChicagoWhiteSox #ComiskeyPark #history
"Sometimes Chicago can be infamous” 👮
What was the most consequential year in Chicago history?
I think "Man Made Object" by Lemon Demon should be the retroactive theme song of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
#history #chicago #historymemes #historymeme #chicagohistory #ushistory #worldsfair #1893worldsfair
Wow, Branko's was a staple (as well as Demon Dogs) during my DePaul days in the 90s. I stood behind Chet Coppock one day getting lunch. Feels like not many of the classic stands are left. #Chicago #chicagohistory #viennabeef #hotdogs #DePaul
https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/03/28/beloved-brankos-sandwich-shop-closing-after-48-years-in-lincoln-park-its-the-end-of-an-era/
On this leap day four years ago, the second public screening of my film ROY'S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO took place at the #GlasgowFilmFest. Shortly thereafter, I bought this exquisite bottle of Cadenhead's #rum to take back home.
Four years later there's just enough left for a final toast this evening. Which I will raise to everyone who helped make the film a reality--you know who you are. Cheers!
#roysworldfilm #glasgow #barrygifford #documentary #documentaries #chicago #chicagohistory
So, Friday is the 45th anniversary of the Blizzard of '79. Just sayin'. #Chicago #winter #weather #ChicagoHistory
My film ROY'S WORLD: BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO got its first 1/2 star rating on #letterboxd! Meaning that someone was finally moved enough to deem my handiwork an utter POS! So I got that going for me.
#roysworldfilm #barrygifford #documentaries #chicagohistory #letterboxd #letterboxdreview #mattdillon #willemdafoe #lilitaylor #cinema #cinemastodon
Live now at Chicago Public Library- Year of 23: Michael Jordan's Chicago with Dilla
https://www.youtube.com/live/z5fgP5URonQ?si=b4d42szQ5CWhI4Et
Tonight at 6pm at Harold Washington Library -
In Chicago, 23 is a special number and refers to #MichaelJordan and the legacy of the double three-peat the team brought to Chicago in the 90s. Dilla the Urban Historian will explore the legacy of Jordan's Chicago and all things 23. Learn more: http://bit.ly/jordandilla
#ChicagoBulls #MichaelJordan #Chicago #basketball #ChicagoHistory
A very Happy Birthday to Barry Gifford! He was born on this day in 1946.
Gifford has given the world more than forty works, including the novel that inspired David Lynch's WILD AT HEART. Learn all about his childhood in gritty 1950s Chicago--ROY'S WORLD BARRY GIFFORD'S CHICAGO is streaming now! https://www.roysworldfilm.com/post/screeningsreviews
#barrygifford #DavidLynch #WillemDafoe #MattDillon #LiliTaylor #chicagohistory #documentaries #chicago #1950s #filmnoir #CinemaMastodon #books #authors #fiction
The latest episode of Murderland Chicago: A Deep Dish of Death is out now! In this episode we talk about the infamous duo of Leopold and Loeb, who gave birth to a trope that still lives on to this very day: the "perfect crime." We pull the curtain aside and reveal how this crime was far from perfect, and how it set the tone for portrayals and perceptions of serial killers in the media.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2075558/13392903
#murderlandchicago
#leopoldandloeb
#truecrimepodcast
#chicagohistory
#chicagopodcast
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