Hello already welcome back to another episode of the casual criminalist I as always

I'm your host as I'm here one of my writers in this case Matthews thank you Matthew

Matthew Markham that is there's a few Matthews

Let's jump into it shall we the lipstick killer did the Chicago PD frame an innocent man for murder

I love a good conspiracy I mean I don't because if this guy went to murder because he was

framed that would suck but I mean like I like the idea of

conspiracies I find them exciting although mostly unbelievable

just as it was for nearly every country involved in the Second World War, the early 1940s

were a period of rapid change in America that saw nearly every city adapted to fit the war effort

in some way. Chicago, Illinois is where our story

takes place and it was no exception. Since the US's entry into the war in

1941 the city's already robust manufacturing sector had expanded immensely.

And by 1945, the year during which our story begins, more than 40 railroads then snaked through

it.

Wow!

So America had a past where they had railways, because today it's kind of a joke, right?

Like there's Amtrak, but it's like most people just drive everywhere, right? Each one ran day and night importing raw materials to one of over 260 factories that produced everything

from first aid kits and uniforms to engines for the now famous B29 bomber.

To staff these factories, women had now made their way into the workforce for the first time as most men were

the performing other critical jobs who had been shipped overseas to fight.

These women, combined with over half a million new residents that had come to Chicago seeking

work.

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