What Happened to Nike Missile Sites Around Chicago?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2013

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Cold War Chicago was once peppered with nuclear missiles ready to thwart a Soviet attack.

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0:00.0	Planet Money helps you understand the economy. We find the people at the center of the story.
0:05.1	Garbage in New York, that was like a controlled substance. We show you how money influences everything.
0:11.6	Tell me what you like by telling me how you spend your money. And we dig until we get answers.
0:17.5	I had a bad feeling you're going to bring that up. Planet Money finds out. All you have to do
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0:40.5	You are listening to the Curious City podcast from WB.B.Z. Chicago. You asked questions.
0:47.5	We answer them together.
0:51.2	We all know the atomic bomb is very dangerous.
0:55.0	Since it may be used against us, we must get ready for it.
0:58.0	Our civil defense workers and our men in uniform will do everything they can
1:03.0	to warn us before enemy planes can bring a bomb near us.
1:07.0	You may be in your schoolyard playing when the signal comes.
1:11.6	That signal means to stop whatever you are doing and get to the nearest safe place fast.
1:19.6	First you duck, and then you cover.
1:23.6	And very tightly, you cover the back of your neck and your face.
1:28.5	Duck!
1:29.8	And cover!
1:32.0	Duck!
1:33.4	And cover!
1:35.7	Duck!
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