Is Construction Work A Boon For Chicago's Urban Archaeologists?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2013

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Curious Citizen Linda Rudy wondered when ground is broken for building or repairs, is anyone there to look for treasure? We catch up with local archaeologists who’ve scoured everything from construction sites, to the White City, to ... grandpa’s outhouse.

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0:15.5	And we dig until we get answers.
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0:42.6	They deconstructed the driveway, started digging, found all sorts of stuff.
0:46.7	Bottles and medicine bottles and things like that. But they also found like dentures and an old
0:52.0	man's pipe, an alarm clock.
0:58.6	And it's really interesting trash that maybe when you're living at that time, you're like,
1:01.2	what am I going to do with this stuff? I'm just going to throw it out the window.
1:07.5	But for people like us now, we're studying it, we can kind of get a snapshot of what was going on during that time in daily life.
1:13.0	So Susie, do you mind doing the, you're listening to The Curious City thing?
1:17.0	Sure.
1:18.0	You're listening to the Curious City podcast from WBEZ Chicago.
1:22.2	You ask the questions.
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