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 […]

"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/

#ChicagoHistory #JeffersonPark

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

#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… […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/05/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign-what-was-life-in-chicago-like-in-2000/

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

https://www.themovieblog.com/2025/01/filmmaker-and-author-talk-about-baseball-love-letter-last-comiskey/

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

https://www.themovieblog.com/2025/01/filmmaker-and-author-talk-about-baseball-love-letter-last-comiskey/

"Sometimes Chicago can be infamous” 👮

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDyI_A7lKQw

#video #Chicago #ChicagoHistory #ChicagoPolice