Chicago’s Dill Pickle Club: Where Anarchists Mixed With Doctors And Poets

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The Dill Pickle wasn’t just any old 1920s nightclub. It opened its doors to queer Chicagoans and other marginalized groups.

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0:00.0	Planet Money helps you understand the economy.
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0:20.7	All you have to do is listen.
0:22.4	The Planet Money podcast from NPR.
0:26.2	It's Curious City, where we take your questions about Chicago and the region, and investigate.
0:31.9	Report.
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0:38.7	I'm Quinn Myers, and we're starting this week's
0:41.0	Curious City slightly off the beaten path
0:43.7	in a dumpster lined alley on the near north side,
0:47.1	not far from the magnificent mile.
0:49.3	I'm here to meet up with Paul Easton,
0:51.6	a high school English teacher from Skokie.
0:53.5	Oh, yeah, lovely
0:54.2	a lovely garage. In this same spot a hundred years ago, instead of dumpsters and rat poison
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