Windy City Historians
Episode 9: The First Scandal
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“I just finished listening to the 1st three episodes of Windy City Historians. Great stuff. Congrats!” — Ethan Michaeli, author of The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America
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Episode 9: The First Scandal
Early settlement of Chicago begins, Fort Dearborn is established at this outpost in Indian Country and it gets entangled in Chicago's first scandal.
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Episode 8 : The First Settler
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines settler as, “a person who goes to live in a new place where usually there are few or no people”. Native Americans have lived in...
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Episode 7: Jolliet & Marquette by Reenactment
Perhaps nothing in Chicago history is as fundamental as Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette’s expedition of 1673. Their voyage by canoe from St. Anglace down Lake Michigan to the...
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Episode 6: Mississippi by Canoe
“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and gives her a most respectable outside-aspect of...
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Episode 5: Missing at Death’s Door
Our examination of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle continues in this episode, as we follow the progress of the 1976-77 La Salle II Expedition, which ran into rough...
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Episode 4: La Salle and the Voyageurs
The name La Salle is ubiquitous throughout the United States, with streets, parks, towns, universities, parishes, schools and even counties named for this French explorer. In this episode, “La...
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