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Social control in early 20th century Chicago / Martin Billheimer

This Is Hell!

This Is Hell!

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Writer Martin Billheimer on his book "Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age" from Feral House. https://feralhouse.com/mother-chicago/

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0:00.0

I don't have to. The Picket down. This is hell. manufacturing descent since 1996.

0:48.0

This is hell.

0:50.0

And before we do anything, Richard,

0:52.0

what was the music that you were playing before the show started?

0:55.0

Uh, that was the sea and the cake.

0:58.0

Oh, no kidding.

0:59.0

Yes, sir.

1:00.0

It sounded very, uh, Motownish.

1:02.0

I had no idea. of ambient like weirdo

1:05.4

Electro I don't know whatever you want to call it low low intensity

1:11.4

Peace they used to play up at aUAR right before we do the show,

1:15.5

or right after we do the show,

1:16.8

they would be a show called Airplay,

1:18.8

and they would, they played there numerous times

1:20.8

while we were doing the show.

1:21.6

It's very entertaining.

1:22.8

Manufacturing dissent since 1996,

1:25.2

as I was saying, this is hell.

1:27.7

Toward the end of the 19th century

1:29.7

and in the early 20th century,

1:30.9

city elders and do-gooders decided that Chicago had a

1:34.0

juvenile delinquency problem with so many children coming from single-parent homes

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