Christkindlmarket’s Forgotten Year

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A Curious City listener collects Christkindlmarket mugs. But there’s one mug in her collection without a year on it. We go in search of that lost year.

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0:42.0	What's up, Chicago?
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0:48.1	The holidays are upon us, which means all the things.
0:55.0	Seven candles for Kwanza, nine for Hanukkah, Santa, Nativity scenes, and of course, Mariah Carey.
1:10.7	Now, these are mostly American traditions, but there's one thing we do, particularly in Chicago, that turns a block downtown into Nuremberg, Germany for a few weeks every year.
1:12.1	Chris Kendall Market.
1:18.2	I started going to the Chris Crandall Market with my partner three years ago.
1:20.6	Got hot chocolate and just kept the mugs.
1:25.0	This is Diana Baraz, and from there, she and her partner started collecting mugs every year from Chris Kendall Market.
1:27.1	I throw a Yule Tide party every year, and everyone gets their own Christmas mug and hot cocoa.
1:35.8	So it is, it's pretty perfect for the parties.
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