A Chicago Historian Tackles Your Questions About The City

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English - August 26, 2021 04:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 595 ratings
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Historian Dominic Pacyga shares his encyclopedic knowledge of Chicago history and answers questions about everything from breweries to slaughterhouses. Plus, reporter Monica Eng brings us a story from Ed Kramer, who, as an eighth grader in 1941 took a field trip with his class to visit the stockyards. Yep, Chicago school kids used to do that.