Chicago History Podcast
Stories from history of the Greatest City in the World - Chicago. The places, events, and the people behind it all.
Chicago History Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 823 - Ground Beneath the Diamonds: A History of Chicago's White Sox Ballparks, The
The Chicago White Sox have called three primary sites home since the team’s founding in 1900, and each plot of earth carries layers of history older than the game of baseball. Show your love of this podcast for the cost of a ...
FROM THE ARCHIVES - Bizarre Story of the Missing Wheaton Bible College Couple, The
Originally released January 15, 2022. In 1988, two attractive young students attending a prominent suburban Chicago religious school disappeared, setting off a frenzied search that lasted months before the truth about what happened ...
Episode 822 - B'Ginnings: Where Schaumburg Rocked The Suburbs
Some of histories biggest rock acts first performed in the Chicago area at music venue in a suburban strip mall in Schaumburg. This is the story of B'Ginnings.Show your love of this podcast for the cost of a coffee:
SPECIAL EPISODE - The Women Who Built Chicago with genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith
Genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith joins me to discuss her connections to Chicago and "The Women Who Built Chicago" bus tour, launched for Women's History Month in partnership with Ancestry, which highlights overlooked women's contributions....
Episode 821 - Behind the Camera: Jun Fujita's Chicago with author Graham Harrison Lee
Jun Fujita was a pioneering Japanese-born photographer who made his way to Chicago to become widely regarded as the first Japanese American photojournalist. Hear more about Fujita's life in Chicago from Graham Harrison Lee, Fujita's great-nephe...
