ChicagoHamburg30
Episode Archive
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The Sound of Chicago #1: Great Black Music
In this first of three episodes about Chicago avant-garde music, Dr. Douglas Cowie and DJ Kara "Slim" Rusch introduce you to the two key organizations that shaped the scene: the Association for ...
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Organized Crime in Chicago: A Short History
Chicago is always associated with the Mafia boss Al Capone. But what is the real history of organized crime in the city? When did it begin? What social and economic forces helped it grow? And ...
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Meatpacking in Chicago and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906)
No industry shaped Chicago more decisively than the meatpacking industry, and no book exposed the rapacious, exploitative and vicious character of the meatpacking industry more than Upton Sincla...
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Chicago: The Midwest's Queer Metropolis
Happy Pride Month!
We celebrate with an episode about Queer Chicago featuring two historians of Queer History, Owen Keehnen and Timothy Stewart-Winter.
Topics include the follo...
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Literature of Chicago #7: Studs Terkel, Historian of the People
In our third episode celebrating Jewish American History Month for the ChicagoHamburg30 Sister-City Anniversary podcast, we turn to the career of Studs Terkel. Studs was the child of Russian Je...
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Literature of Chicago #6: Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
"I am an American, Chicago born—-Chicago, that somber city-—and go at things as I have taught myself, freestyle, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes...
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Jewish Chicago: City of Opportunity
Happy Jewish American Heritage Month! In this episode, we explore the rich and complex history of Jewish Chicago, from the 1850s to the present.
Topics include the following:
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Literature of Chicago #5: The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
In this second episode celebrating Chicago poets for National Poetry Month, Douglas Cowie and Adrienne Brown (University of Chicago) discuss the life and poetry of Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Gw...
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Literature of Chicago #4: Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems (1919)
Tool maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's
Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Should...
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Literature of Chicago #3: The House on Mango Street (1983) by Sandra Cisneros
Our Women's History Month Literature of Chicago episode features a classic novel about a Latina girl coming of age in Chicago by a Latina Chicagoan:The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros