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Angela Klank and Ida Scheidweiler, Chicago, 1926 (Library of Congress)
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From Chicago Tribune photographer Jason Wambsgans, a frightening scene of abandoned cars on Lake Shore Drive this morning. (via @kevinthepang)
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This is the first of four clips of a broadcast from the 1967 Chicago blizzard.( With Pictures / via Gaper’s Block)
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Happy Friday! Carl Kasell, the Hall of Fame NPR broadcaster and scorekeeper for Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, did the Bears players a favor by reciting the famous Al Pacino pre-game speech from the movie Any Given Sunday. It’s a pump up pre-game speech from your extended family at NPR/WBEZ.
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Only two families remain in the last standing high rise in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing complex and they could move out as soon as Tuesday. The move marks the end of an era in Chicago’s troubled public housing history, as the Chicago Housing Authority has been gradually moving residents out and tearing down the high rises at Cabrini and other public housing developments in the city.