Curious City
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- Website
- https://www.wbez.org/shows/curious-city/7b79e16d-f3a9-4156-9b27-4d2cc6ce351e
- Description
- Ask questions, vote and discover answers about Chicago, the region and its people. From WBEZ.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2023-07-06 14:16
- last episode published
- 2023-07-06 02:00
- publication frequency
- 8.49 days
- Contributors
- WBEZ Chicago
- Owner
- WBEZ Chicago
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 461
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Education News Arts
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2023-07-06 | The bitter liquor has been around for about a century, but Malört’s rise to Chicago icon status is a more recent story. |
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| 2023-06-29 |
Four Dances Invented in Chicago, Plus a Traditional One Chicagoans Keep Alive We waltz with the musicians and dancers who popularized dances in Chicago, and we feel the beat with the people who keep La Danza Ateca alive in Pilsen. |
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| 2023-06-22 |
What Happens To Unidentified Or Unclaimed Bodies in Cook County? When someone dies in Cook County and there’s no one to identify or claim the body, a small army of people from the public and private sectors work to find out who the person is, if they have any relatives or friends, and ultimately give them a dignifie... |
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| 2023-06-15 |
Chi-Town Is A Pie Town, But We Search Out The Best Single-Slice Pizza In The City A New York transplant loves everything about Chicago, but misses the easy access to a big slice of pizza on a paper plate. Our city’s tavern style and deep dish don’t lend themselves to the “slice to go” concept, but slice shops have gained traction ov... |
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| 2023-06-08 | The huge, gleaming Baháʼí House of Worship for North America definitely stands out from its suburban lakefront surroundings. It’s the oldest Baháʼí temple in the world, and it’s also known as the holiest. But why is it in Wilmette, Illinois? That answe... |
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| 2023-06-01 |
Chicago’s Infamous Dojo Wars Part 2: The Fall of Count Dante, the Deadliest Man Alive In the 1960s, Chicago was becoming known as a center for Karate teaching and international tournaments, and the main person behind this movement was John Keehan. In the last of this two part series, we delve into Keehan’s devolution into a persona he c... |
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| 2023-05-25 |
Chicago’s Infamous Dojo Wars, Part 1: The Rise of John Keehan, Karate Sensei In the 1960s, Chicago was becoming known as a center for Karate teaching and international tournaments, and the main person behind this movement was John Keehan. He was a revered black belt instructor who was also often an instigator in Chicago’s “Dojo... |
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| 2023-05-18 |
Move Over Mayor. Adios Aldermen. Regular Citizens Can Propose Laws In Chicago And We’ll Tell You How Brandon Johnson was just sworn in as Chicago’s new mayor. Johnson was known as a union and community organizer who believes average people should have more say in how their government works. Which is why we thought this story from 2021 about how any ci... |
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| 2023-05-11 | Carolina Sandoval was on one of the first buses from Texas to Chicago last fall. We follow her journey here from Venezuela, discovering how she’s found some sense of independence as the situation for new arrivals continues to evolve amid a growing cris... |
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| 2023-05-04 |
Beer and Bar Culture In Chicago: Curious City Live from Carol’s Pub In April, Carol’s Pub was packed with Curious City fans eager to learn about the history of Uptown saloons and the importance of beer and tavern culture to Chicago. Knowledge flowed from the stage, brews flowed from the taps and great music flowed from... |
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