Category: Catchup

The Ike was the city’s first superhighway. In this special presentation, people affected open up about how it scattered ethnic neighborhoods and changed many lives forever.

While the Curious City Scavenger Hunt: Chicago Eats Edition continues to take you all across the city, we’re pulling stories from our archive that dive into the history of Chicago’s neighborhoods. This week, a story from 2017 takes us to Lake View, which once had a thriving Japanese community — but it fell victim to a push for assimilation. As one Japanese-American puts it: “You had to basically be unseen.”

With the “Curious City Scavenger Hunt: Chicago Eats Edition” now underway, we’re revisiting a story about foods created right here in Chicago.

A listener noticed an odd detail on an old map. Curious City investigated whether it was the site of an ancient burial mound.

As statues are removed in cities across the United States, we revisit a story about what it takes to get one put up in the first place.

Folk singer Steve Goodman grew up going to Cubs games, and this diehard fan had a lifelong goal—to write a hit song about baseball.

From office use to wearing them outdoors, we clear up some of your lingering confusions about face masks.

Plywood boards on storefronts became canvases during the protests over the killing of George Floyd. One Chicagoan wonders what will happen to the art now.

A rising population, developing landscape and evolving entertainment all helped form a need for the Chicago music venues we know today.

As new parents to twins, Ricardo and Marcela Serment wonder if it could finally be time to invite some helping hands into their home.