Weird And Wonderful Things You Might Not Know About Chicago

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What associations do you make with Chicago? Da Bears? Shady politics? Wacky weather? If you feel that list is getting stale, here’s a list of new ones to consider!

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0:00.0	The city of Chicago brings a few things to mind, no matter if you're from here or not.
0:05.8	What's the first thing you think of when you think of Chicago?
0:08.7	The lake.
0:09.5	The skyscrapers.
0:10.5	Pizza.
0:11.0	The cold winters.
0:12.2	Wrigley Field.
0:13.4	All that stuff is great, but all of those associations, as well as the bears and the shady politics and the wacky weather.
0:23.0	All of that can get a little stale.
0:27.0	Come on, Chicago is way more interesting than that.
0:33.5	Over the next hour, W.B.E.Z's Curious City is going to give you some new insights into the Chicago area.
0:34.2	Oh, wow.
0:36.3	Some different facts to ponder.
0:40.3	Wait, that, wait. Okay, that's important though. And some lesser-known Chicago trivia to whip out and blow everyone's minds.
0:45.3	What?
0:46.3	No way!
0:47.3	Right here.
0:48.3	Oh my gosh!
0:50.3	That's unbelievable!
0:52.3	Stick around and get to know some other sides of Chicago from WBEZ's Curious City.
0:58.3	We'll be right back.
1:01.1	All right, so if you were listening to the radio, you would be hearing news right now or music or something.
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