Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of I Heart Radio and

Grim and Mild. Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book,

all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of the roaring 20s,

a time of excess and excitement, ground to a halt.

In Chicago, a booming downtown full of bustling business people transformed almost overnight

into long lines of citizens endlessly waiting.

People waited for work, waited for money, and most importantly, waited for food.

In November 1930, a soup kitchen sprang up on State Street to feed the hundreds of thousands of Jovela Chicagoans.

It had no name, just a huge marquee out front that read,

free soup 100 dozen rolls and 30 pounds of coffee.

Lunch and dinner was hundreds of gallons of fresh-made soup.

No one was required to prove their financial need

and no hungry soul was ever denied a second helping.

It was a mystery.

The whole world was broken and yet somehow this unnamed soup kitchen

not affiliated with any major companies or charities had the means to feed over 2,000 people each day.

Nearly a week later, Chicago's soup kitchen mystery was finally solved.

The newspapers reported that the Windy City's big-hearted benefactor

was none other than the notorious mobster Al Capone.

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