Curious City

567 Episodes

1. The complicated statue of labor leader Samuel Gompers

   Published: 4/30/2025
2. Maria Rodriguez: From fashion designer to restaurateur

   Published: 4/24/2025
3. Like NYC and Paris, Chicago was a hub for fashion designers

   Published: 4/23/2025
4. How sweet the sound: The history of Evanston folk coffeehouse Amazingrace

   Published: 4/17/2025
5. ‘An underground subculture’: How Chicago coffeehouses shaped the folk revival movement

   Published: 4/16/2025
6. You May Also Like: Stories Without End

   Published: 4/13/2025
7. Is extremist ideology still fringe?

   Published: 4/10/2025
8. How much influence did white supremacist groups have on Chicago housing?

   Published: 4/9/2025
9. What's up with the Chicago's feral cats?

   Published: 4/2/2025
10. “Enemy Alien”: How Chicago photojournalist Jun Fujita avoided Japanese internment camps

    Published: 3/27/2025
11. Restriction and sanctuary: A look at Chicago mayors’ wildly different approaches to immigrants

    Published: 3/26/2025
12. The Life and Legacy of Alice Hamilton

    Published: 3/19/2025
13. How does honoring the dead impact the environment?

    Published: 3/13/2025
14. Why is there a cemetery at O’Hare Airport?

    Published: 3/12/2025
15. How one Midwestern community avoids road salt all winter

    Published: 3/6/2025
16. Could Chicago ever ditch the road salt?

    Published: 3/5/2025
17. The First Black-Owned And Operated Airport Was In Robbins

    Published: 2/26/2025
18. “It’s too complicated”: The state of cannabis record expungement in Illinois

    Published: 2/20/2025
19. Illinois has made a lot of money from recreational pot. How’s that money used?

    Published: 2/19/2025
20. There’s a delicate alchemy to overturning a wrongful conviction

    Published: 2/13/2025