Windy City Historians Podcast

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch interview Texas Tech historian John William Nelson about Muddy Ground, Native Peoples, Chicago Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent.

Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch frame Windy City Historians' cicada episode around the 13-year and 17-year broods, first identified in 1786 and 1790 and reunited in 1803 and 2024.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch examine Chicago's 1920s newspaper market, when nine papers competed for readers and afternoon editions delivered updates to commuters.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch investigate Chicago’s 1919 race riots during the nationwide Red Summer.

Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch interview historian Joe Gostaitis about how World War I changed Chicago's German identity, entertainment economy, politics, and civic life.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch interview historian Charles Branham about how roughly 1.2 million African Americans moved from the South to northern cities during the Great Migration.

Windy City Historians Episode 26 examines Chicago's 1908 street-address ordinance and the 1909 Plan of Chicago with cartographer and historian Dennis McClendon.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch interview Northwestern professor Bill Savage about George Ade, The Old-Time Saloon, and Chicago's drinking culture during Prohibition.

David Daruska, a retired train engineer and railroad historian, explains how locomotive crews manage 12-hour limits, computerized alerts, federal rules, and the possibility of working beyond 12 hours to clear a crossing.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch interview retired engineer and historian David R.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch use Chicago policeman John Fitzpatrick's career to connect Haymarket, the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the H.H.

Windy City Historians Episode 21, “The Third Star – Part III,” concludes its discussion of the 1893 Columbian Exposition with Newberry Library exhibitions director Paul DeRica and Chicago Reader writer Jeff Nichols.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch examine Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition as the third star on the Chicago flag, following Fort Dearborn and the Great Chicago Fire.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch interview author Joe Gustaitis about Chicago in 1893, the year he calls “Chicago's Greatest Year.” Joe argues that 1893 mattered beyond the Columbian Exposition because Chicago was competing with Cincinnati, St.

Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch connect the 1886 Haymarket conflict to Chicago's labor history, including the Knights of Labor's organizing of women, African-Americans, and immigrant workers.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch examine the Great Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871, identified as Chicago's second flag star.

Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch examine the Union Stockyard Company, which opened on Christmas Day in 1865 and became a Chicago tourist destination alongside the 1893 World's Fair.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch interview Chicago historian Liz Gerbe about how alcohol shaped Chicago's society, politics, trade, and brewing industry.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch use historian Ann Durkin Keating's account to trace Chicago from Fort Dearborn in 1803 through the city's 1837 incorporation.

Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch examine Chicago epidemics, the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, and the COVID-19 context of their 2020 recording.

Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch continue their interview with Ann Durkin Keating about Fort Dearborn's evacuation and the events leading to August 15, 1812.

Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch examine the first star on Chicago's flag, which commemorates the 1812 Fort Dearborn era and was placed alongside stars for the 1871 Chicago Fire and 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch examine Chicago's first documented murder, the June 17, 1812 death of Jean Lalim near Fort Dearborn.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch interview North Central College professor Ann Keating about Chicago’s early history before Fort Dearborn and the 1830 James Thompson plat.

Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch examine Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, a French-speaking man of Haitian background identified as Chicago's first permanent settler near the Chicago River.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch interview Reed Lewis, Ken Lewis, and Chuck McHenry about the 1973 reenactment of the 1673 Marquette and Joliet expedition.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch interview Paul Meineke about his 2017, 70-day canoe trip from the Mississippi headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.

Windy City Historians hosts Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch follow the LaSalle 2 expedition through a November crisis at Death's Door, where four teenagers become separated in roughly 38- to 39-degree water.

Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch examine René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, whose name appears on LaSalle Street, a Lincoln Park statue, an Illinois city, and the LaSalle Bridge.

Patrick McBriarty and Christopher Lynch complete their two-part discussion with John Swenson about the place called Chicago and Spirit Trail Mound in Olympia Fields.