Chicago's forgotten Civil War prison camp

Curious City

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🗓️ 11 March 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Camp Douglas’ deadly reputation was kept in shadows but now there’s a surprising movement to bring it to light.

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.0	What school's up?
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.0	Why they keep the look?
0:11.0	What is this?
0:13.0	It's a curious city.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.0	Hi, I'm Marraben region, and its people.
0:24.6	Hi, I'm Marrabenight, and I'm going to answer a history question.
0:29.7	It's not one of those trip down memory lane kind of questions, where the answer's easy,
0:35.1	and we're all glad to find it. This history is dark, and it's strange, and in the end, we all feel that we should know it, even if maybe we don't want to.
0:40.0	Our question starts with uptown resident Chris Rowland.
0:43.3	So I was at work one day, and we were just talking, the Civil War came up,
0:47.7	and one of the guys had mentioned that there was actually a prison camp in the actual city of Chicago,
0:54.1	and nobody could even remember what the actual city of Chicago.
0:57.3	And nobody could even remember what the name of it was.
0:59.2	So he Googled it, but... Not a whole lot that you can kind of find readily available.
1:03.1	It was troublesome to find anything.
1:05.3	So he sent us a question that went like this.
1:08.2	Why was there a prison camp in Chicago during the Civil War? And why did so many
1:12.0	people die there? What happened to it? Well, there was a Civil War camp. It was just south
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