Curious City: The Nazis' Neighborhood

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Was there ever a Nazi neighborhood in Chicago? In this special Curious City mini-documentary and online presentation (complete with archival photos and video), we tell the story of how an infamous neo-Nazi group settled in the Marquette Park neighborhood and used it as a home base to gain attention and promote its political agenda. The story of the group’s rise and fall on Chicago’s Southwest Side raises questions about the extent of free speech and how mainstream racism in any neighborhood can encourage hate groups.

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0:00.0	Planet Money helps you understand the economy.
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0:15.5	And we dig until we get answers.
0:17.5	I had a bad feeling you're going to bring that up.
0:19.4	Planet Money finds out.
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.
0:32.5	Explore.
0:33.4	From WBEZ.
0:38.8	I'm Jesse Dukes, audio producer for Curious City.
0:42.3	And the story I'm about to tell has frank descriptions of racism,
0:45.6	anti-Semitism, and violence.
0:47.7	Quick warning, some of the audio includes an especially offensive racist slur.
0:53.1	This story is about a neighborhood, so we'll start there.
0:57.6	Hello.
0:58.1	We've had a very pleasant, good morning, young person.
1:00.8	Thank you. Good morning to you.
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