Windy City Historians Podcast
This is not your Grandad's podcast - WCH Podcast is on and about Chicago history for anyone curious about the Windy City!
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Recent Episodes
Episode 10: The First Murder
Founded in 1803, Chicago's Fort Dearborn is the western most outpost on the frontier, and by 1812 still the most isolated fort in Indian Country. The...
Episode 8 : The First Settler
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines settler as, "a person who goes to live in a new place where usually there are few or no people". Native Americans...
Episode 7: Jolliet & Marquette by Reenactment
Perhaps nothing in Chicago history is as fundamental as Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette’s expedition of 1673. Their voyage by canoe from St....
Episode 6: Mississippi by Canoe
“Unquestionably the discovery of the Mississippi is a datable fact which considerably mellows and modifies the shiny newness of our country, and...
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