Chicago Is a Her (and She’s 189)

0:00Chicago is a woman and we're going to prove it to you today. Happy 189th birthday to Chicago. Second set for the Chicago. Let's get it. Let's get it. Oh. Yeah. I love this song. Kevin. Kevin really just killed it. He snapped with this band. Yeah. Yes. I love it so much. He absolutely snapped with this. Yeah. Hey. If you're new here, welcome. We are so happy you found us. And does if you're not new here, welcome back today is an exciting episode. But before we get into that, please make sure you are following us. You are subscribed to this podcast. It means the world. It really helps push our stuff. If you did rate, leave a nice little comment, share it with a friend. It really just makes a huge difference. Especially now that we're officially a, you know, a nonprofit. And our website went live. Website is live, y'all. Finally, shout out to Cassidy and Sierra.

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5:08No, no, no. Yes. There's so many people in my name, we will not take, you say, oh, money ain't good money. Most people. Oh, money ain't good money. No, no. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, I had a fun week. This was a fun week. Yeah. A lot of work. But fun work. Yeah, I was looking back at our calendar of stuff that we did. We did two fun things and everything else was work. Well, I'm going to add a third in there because, you know, it was kind of like maintenance on the podcast. You know, if you, if you look closely, y'all, and you search that podcast, you'll find two podcasts, uh, listings on Apple, yeah, on Apple, you'll find two everywhere else, you find just one. So if you listen on Apple, which a good chunk of y'all do, we see the numbers, uh, listen to the one that has a 4.5 rating, not a 5 star rating. The one, because that's where, I don't know, there's a long mix up. But anyway, we, we kind of get into the bottom of fixing that. It's a process from what we learned, but we are, I don't think the real people work

6:08at Apple. They came because like, I feel somebody should have been like, Oh, yeah, we see this. Oh, done. You have me. Yeah, but anyway, uh, the other fun thing, the actual fun thing that we did, the other two that Sarah was talking about was we went to Carmines. We went to Carmines. Carmines is a restaurant on Rush that was closed out for a couple of years. It's next to Bellevue and they just reopened and they invited us to, uh, kind of experience the reopening was really fun. The place was packed and like a small section was for the event, uh, which is always so nice because we get to see like, you know, people in the media that we know, people, other influencers and stuff like that. So it's always nice to go to these events. Carmines. As much as I'm like, some of the week I'm kind of tired, you know, I don't feel like the, but we always have fun. So we're, we're, we're able to be invited. Let me tell you something, the food at Carmines is fantastic. Yeah, it was really good. Bang, tack, y'all. I mean, it was like, everything was flawlessly executed. I can't, I want to go back and like, sit down, because what we ate was like, uh, the face style for the event, uh, which I always expect that to be like not as good as

7:14like the sit down meal, but that was still great. And let me, and those, uh, Garland Brooks, y'all, uh, let me tell you that was, I think I had two of them. Yeah, I definitely had to. I was going to get a third, but we was liked in the conversation. Yeah, we were. Good conversation. So I didn't want to look greedy on camera, but you know, on camera, I'm just in person. Just in person. Yeah, just on camera. They know I'm greedy. They see the pie guys, they see the pace, you know, um, and then, uh, we also follow up to black history month, uh, the episode we talked about, you know, the origin of his, uh, black history month at the Wabash Y, we went to the open house that they had, um, to kind of, this open house was different. It was not just an open house, so you can come look at stuff. It was also an open house so that if you can help find the story behind this because there's a lot of pictures, there's a lot of, uh, you know, data that they could find

8:14and stories about it written from news articles and things like that. But what they're looking for are things from the, the neighborhood. If you got family that, you know, may have been here and talked about it, please share those stories so they, they can build a history of this place. And, uh, which was really cool because they had different stations up in there, uh, where you can kind of like, a share your story, learn the story, just sign in for the first time. If this is the first time here, they had a bead making going on, then they had like this one in the dining room area where I'm dining room, um, in the, like, it was kind of like a dining room area that they had a set up. But binders of different things going on, like athletics going on, news articles going on, um, you know, people, you know, just people there that pictures that they could find, which was really, really cool. So if you've never been to the, um, Wabash YMCA, which is where the history of the week was started, like history month was started, go there.

9:18I don't know how many more of these they go have. I'm sure they're going to be doing. I gotta say the whole point is they, they're restoring the building. So the first floor is currently under restoration. They can't go. They can't really go in. You can like step into it to kind of see what's going on. But they're, they're either, you could, you could see the pool, which is, I mean, it's a insanely historic building. The people that have gone through there is like mind boggling that we even like walked through the same space. Yeah. You know, it's amazing. Yeah. Right. And I felt that too. I was like, then we're in the building with these people start legends, like change the history of United States and what's in was in there. So even have the sign of the ASA LH, uh, in there, um, and which was obviously started right there to a year after they started the, um, like Negro history, you know, I mean, so which were a group of stairs that, um, laid to, like the stairs that go nowhere. Yeah. And it's really nice to see the community come together on like, uh, you know, that everyone

10:27isn't interested in this of whether you want to learn more about the building or you want to learn more about the history or you have a story to tell. I think it's just like really cool to see everyone in the same space, um, yeah, it was, it was really fun. It's amazing. Honestly, great way to literally aim, like history month, uh, and a nice little tieback to what the story we share, uh, so that was really cool. Yeah. But now, now we are in another, another historic month, uh, we obviously there's five Mondays in March. So we thought, let's start off with a little bit of a birthday wish to Chicago on the first episode. But don't you worry. Yeah. It's going to be a fun one. This we blend in the hell out of it, let's go, y'all. All right, y'all. So check it out. We were like, it's Chicago's birthday week, you know, obviously this, this released on the second, you know, we're two days before the birthday. But y'all, we're going to celebrate this and, uh, women's history month.

11:30And like I said at the top, Chicago's a woman. We have actual proof of this. Yeah. And so we were doing the, uh, we were doing like a lot of thoughts on how we should go about this. And we literally came up with the story zero hour, which is how our things go. Yeah. We, it takes some time to like, put these stories together to finish the story. I feel like, because we, in the past, we've done, uh, different takes on the Chicago's birthday. So I'm excited about this one. I feel like it's different. Which, thank you. If you go to, uh, if you listen to the archives, check out the Chicago birthday episodes. They all listed happy birthday, Chicago does, it's, I'm some kind of way. And, uh, we've done different fun angles. This is probably my favorite, my favorite, uh, I think it's, I think it's kind of, yeah, a little different. Yeah. This is, this is, uh, probably the one that I'm most excited about. And, uh, yeah. So I will, we're going to start with the story of I will, right, and I'm just, as I organized myself here.

12:31But I will is Chicago's model and model, yeah, yeah, Chicago's model and, um, it started after the Chicago fire in 1871. And the reason why is I will be rebuilt, you know, we, we will rebuild, you know, I was reading through some archive articles and there's an article from 1999 in the Tribune that talks about the I will model that is to change it to, uh, I want, and it was interesting because one of the people in the article that was quoted is a university Chicago professor and he was saying how, um, you know, at that time of time period, it was really like, really trendy almost to have these like models and symbols and things like that. Like the, you know, uh, Paris had the Eiffel Tower. And so it was, it was almost like Chicago wanted to be on trend. Well, that is, uh, Elliott, y'all, uh, that was, that was a shot, but, uh, you know,

13:35Elliott right there, um, let's start. So, you know, it was, the I will model came after the Chicago fire to rebuild and plan. It wasn't until 1892 when the daily inter-ocean, uh, magazine newspaper came out and said, Hey, we need a competition to give Chicago, uh, uh, a figure of some sorts that represents Chicago. I want to read this quote to you because I think this is fantastic. Now this is off of Chicago, allergies, uh, website, um, and the daily inter-ocean article that was written, Chicago has nothing to typify her in a pictorial way. One of the greatest cities in America is represented in cartoons and other illustrative work according to the whim or taste of the artist. There should be some figure that, that will be to Chicago. What Uncle Sam is to the United States and the father and what father Nicarbocker is to

14:36New York, some figure that will come into general use as a personifying the city. Now, interesting. Exactly. What you said, Chicago needed a mascot and they felt this back in the 1892, January 7th, 1892. Now, if that reminds you of some things, uh, a year, uh, that's a year right before the, uh, world's fair. Yeah. Now here's what they did for the competition. The competition, uh, was held to create something to that embodies Chicago, right? And they had artists all from all over the place come over and submit. Now there was three prizes, this is going to be a first, second, and third for this. Now keep this in mind, y'all, uh, first, second, and third for this, and this is the prize that you got. Okay. Prize number one, two hundred dollars, second place, a hundred dollars, third place, fifty dollars. That's all you got. I mean, I guess back in the 1892, I mean, I mean, I guess back in the 1892, I mean, back in the day, so here's the thing, two hundred dollars, an 1892 is about seven thousand

15:39dollars today. So, so you was ballin. Yeah. I mean, the inflation increases about 3,400 per cent. And so there you go. So I'll take seven thousand dollars for a little sketch. I take that. Now, speaking of little sketch, here's, here's the rules of the competition, right? The sketches must be nine by 12 inches sketches, y'all. No names or addresses on the picture. You can't have nothing on it. It had to be sent to WMR French, the director of the Art Institute of Chicago before March 1st, 1892. So we would have been late. This is, this released on March 2nd, this episode. So that's another reason why we did this. So March 2nd, 1892, two hundred and ninety years ago, they had this competition, you know, that's crazy. The judges, now the judges, this is, listen to this, Thomas Nast, who was an artist,

16:42Lyman J. Gage, who was the president of the first national bank, I'm going to get to this last one, Miss Harriet Monter, I wrote that down. Yeah. Why did I make this so difficult for myself? I mean, you're handwriting. I did. I'm like, hey, I'm, you're really like not beating the allegations that you can't read. Just have an echo. Did the music play? What is going on? Almost got played off. That's crazy. Damn. Anyway, y'all, who she was the author of Colombian old, which was to the world's fair, and then the last artist, W-M-R, French, of course, he was a judge. But Bertha Palmer, of course, the president, listen to this, this was her role, the president of the lady managers of the Colombian expo.

17:45Yeah. I mean, that's why she came up with the idea of the brownie. Like it was around that same time that like she was, or she was inviting these women to the Palmer House so they could meet and talk about the women's building and the expo. It was, yeah. It was around that time. Now, I must admit, out of respect for Ms. Bertha Palmer in the article, they have her list of this Mrs. Potter Palmer. Of course they. So, you know, ladies, I am big on her first name. It's getting the name right. You know what I mean? I get, I get, you know, they was locked in in the mirror. He was the big name, but, you know, what's he, I mean, he was, he was the biggest, he's the biggest name in Chicago. Yeah. And the biggest mansion. So those were the judges. And the winner was none other than Charles Holloway. He was actually, he was at the time listed. He was the only one from Chicago. So he was actually from Chicago and he won. He wasn't from Chicago. I think he was from St. Louis, he kind of, you know, they like, yeah, they like most

18:48people. They're back in the 1800s. You know, they moved around and then made a city their own. But the other winners was second prize went to George MP, Patet, looks like it. And then it's hard to read. John, I'd be honest. It's a, yeah, Patet. Yeah. It's a scan of 100 year old article. Yeah. Third prize was join us. Sweet. Sure. Yeah. Please, y'all. Sweet. Swine. Let me see the picture. Yeah, yeah. It's a fire picture. No. It's probably like a V. Yeah. She's maybe. I don't know. Please do not come in. Yeah. I'll just put on a screen right here. SC. Yeah. Y'all figured out. Y'all would get it. Don't blame your boy. There was 300 total sketches. Submitted. Wow. Yeah. 300 total sketches. Submitted. And we went in, tried to look for the sketches. The, it says that they were sent to the art institute. They definitely were. And they were sealed. And I've reached out to the art institute archives to see if they have them.

19:49Because our institute does have, you know, a collection that is not available. Obviously, like, they put things in their collection that there's not always on display. Yeah. Because they have a lot of stuff. Too much. Um, so I reached out. I haven't heard back yet. But if I do hear back, we'll update you on the next episode. Or if you've also on socials, we will absolutely post it on there. Yeah. If, uh, if they do have it, if they allow us to go in and see it, whatever. Now, I want to talk about like how the, how they, the sketches look, right? So the one that won, uh, that's, they use the, I will, she had, I will go in across the sketch of a woman. Yeah. I don't think we described the sketch. Yeah. That's what I'm doing. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a woman with the, I will go in across a breastplate of hers with, yeah. She got, look like, uh, eagle wings, uh, from her head, um, as a headband type of thing, uh, with the skirt that comes down to a dress, come down to right above ankle, right by the shin and it looked like she got like a little sword. Uh, she, so it was said that she was a combo of the Nike, Nike, Nike,

20:52Nique, whatever you want to print, Nike sculpture and Lady Liberty. And she looked just like that. Yeah. She, it was something that was grand. Uh, it was, it was really cool. Listen to what Mrs. Palmer said. I'm going to read this, uh, I'm going to read some of the, actually, I'm going to read the whole paragraph. Um, this is what she said. She said there were so many clever drawings in those submitted, but so very many of didn't, so many, so very many of did not convey any special significance and did not represent Chicago in any possible manner. I agree with it. Uh, I like all three of the pictures for certain reasons, but I do not think that the Chicago public will care for the girl representing border life. And I, I don't know which one was border life. I think she's the girl in the career. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Second place. Um, our city, however, to me is still on the border. And until some more big cities spring up in the west. And we are considered as being in the east. We must continue to play the role of the big girl in the prairie.

21:55Uh, so, so I guess she was like, I like number two, but I don't think I'm going to like number two. Let me tell you something. I'd prefer the one that won. I do too. Let me tell you something. Yeah. The, the one, the second place look like she say boy a lot. Yeah. Like she's like, she looks like she's down. That's it. She looks like she could be in like Tarzan the movie. Like she's dressed. She's dressed like she's number two. Yeah. This is number two. Yeah. She looks like she's like, you think that look like Tarzan? No, no. She doesn't look. She looks like she could be like in that movie. Like she's on like an excavation. You know what I mean? Like she's giving, um, like she got a whip in her hand. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Y'all look at the picture. I'm, I'm being straight up with you. That don't look. She don't look friendly. She does not look friendly. She don't look friendly. Uh, I don't think she looks powerful at all. Yeah. She looked powerful. She looked powerful. She's not in the way. Yeah.

22:55Let me tell you the, the waist to hip ratio is going crazy though. Gross. That was thick. Okay. Uh, anyway. Uh, they use these, uh, the, the drawing of the eye will, which is proof that Chicago is a her. You know. Yeah. I can't believe some people submitted men. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they, that was the thing. You said men are women. You said men are women. Uh, yeah. At the time it did. But, uh, they picked that the woman. Great looking image. Now, this representative, uh, uh, Maiden as you will. Yeah. There's a bust somewhere also. We also looked for the sculptural bust of this because this was presented. Yeah. At the 1893. A used, I should say, the 1893 world's first that the next year. So, uh, they were really using this because they knew it was coming up. Yeah. This is going to be a big thing. It was, it was a huge thing. It was a huge thing. It was a huge thing. The world's fair. So, if you all have any world's fair stuff in your house, the vicinity or she's on there. She's on there. She's on there. Look closely.

23:55Yeah. That is the rep. That is Chicago. Yeah. And, um, the, the bust is, is at the Chicago History Museum. Is it? Yes. Okay. Yeah. It is. It's just like, it's just not in an exhibit right at the moment. I even got the call number. But it's, it's on there. It's in there. I mean, um, it's part of their like sculpture collection. So, it is definitely there. Um, I'm sure when it comes to rotation. I don't know. Yeah. Or they probably put it out. I do want to all you to you. And kind of cap off this part of it because like this is, this is fantastic. This is woman's history month. Uh, Chicago's birthday, 189th birthday. And we proved that she's a woman. Now, here's the really cool thing. Uh, as how Chicago celebrated. So eight August, uh, October 9th, 1893, is known as Chicago's day. Yeah. And the reason why it's known as Chicago's day. If October 8th, 9th, 10th, that time frame sounds familiar, the

24:55fire happened right around there. Chicago happens from the eight to the 10th. Yes. Uh, and so they picked, um, October 9th for two reasons. There's some debate about where the Chicago fire, uh, where the fire, kind of reached its peak, you know, and they, and we kind of pinpointed to be the ninth was like the, the max, the max of the, uh, of the day. Yeah. Also, at the 1893 world's fair, there was a record setting, 751,000 people at the world's fair. This is 1893. Yeah. Think about the day. They say they estimated that it was going to be, you know, X, Y, Z people. But then when the ticket sales starts coming in that, here's the thing. It was 50 cents for adults in 25 cents for kids. So, you know, that's not a, that's not a whole bunch of money. So it was doable for a lot of people.

25:56750,000 people think we read an article that chronicled the day. I will say 50 cents in 1893 is about $18. $18 for an adult to come in. That's a lot of money. Yeah. So what $9 for a shorty to get in. So that's, that's kind of the, that's kind of sweet. That's kind of sweet. Yeah. But 751,000 people came through the doors and was there around the center. Now there's a picture of that happening. You know what I mean? Like there's a picture of that emotion. And there's, I found a picture from the world's fair where people are entering into the Colombian exposition. Or the world's fair at some, in some of the buildings. And the I will statue or bust is at the top of the entrance. And it just looks so cool. Yeah. If you're watching a little inserted here. If you're not watching it, check the show notes. Yep. I'll have it in there. It's, yeah, it's, it's a really cool. Absolutely.

26:56Cool. So, so that's why Chicago celebrated Chicago Day. Yeah. Some people recognize that as that day for those two reasons. Now, it's Chicago birthday. So we, so we party. Sarah. Yeah. Tell us about the party. So I'm going to, we're going to, my favorite party has to be the hundred year birthday. I feel like a hundred years is, was a huge thing for Chicago to celebrate so much so that the like the New York, the New York Times wrote about it or. But I found a detailed description of the day from the Tribune. And it was so cool to, to read through and to kind of see what, what, what they were doing. How did they celebrate? I'll give you an idea. This is obviously now 1937. And we are a hundred, you know, we had just had our second world's fair in 1933. The city is a buzz city is a buzz. And the mayor is mayor Kelly.

27:56Which, I don't know, I don't have any. But the celebration went from March 4th through October 9th. Yeah. Which was really cool. And I was like, why October 9th? And then Dario's like, it's actually. So that was really cool to find. But to give you a breakdown of what the, what the March 4th day started out. So we, the day begins with the black horse troop and the Chicago counselor corpse. Moving from the Drake hotel and in kind of like a parade to city hall. And at city hall. At the same time from Michigan Avenue to Randolph. And then west to state. South to Jackson. West to the south. And then north to city hall. Okay. It's kind of like a square. This is where the mayor is moving. That's how his route was. And he was going to meet the foreign councils and their attitudes.

28:57And they were going to present him and the city. And they were going to have a look at congratulations on turning 100 years old. Yeah. So we had like a couple of processions happening throughout downtown. I imagine it was mostly closed off to cars other than their processions. And so they did that like entire ceremony. And then from there, about 11, 45 a.m. The mayor. Will make his way up to the Chicago Historical Society building, which is the Chicago History Museum. And which it said the move to the Chicago Historical Society building in Lincoln Park. And he will be met by the reps of the Allied war vets. And there he would also be presented with some more kind of like celebratory armor or whatever it is. And at noon, the mayor will strike the gavel used by first mayor, Ogden. And that gavel, Ogden used it in the first Chicago council meeting. So it was like one of the first meetings he used the gavel to strike it.

29:59Obviously, they saved it. And so mayor Kelly is going to strike that at exactly at noon. And at the same time, the cannon replicas at Fort Dearborn are going to will fire a salute at the lakefront and Burnham Park. And they will fire 100 times. Wow. And but here's the thing. It's going to be even louder because every ship will whistle. Every train will whistle. All the church bells went off. Okay. God, the city was loud. Yeah. You know what turned up. Railroads, factories, every single thing that could have a horn or a siren went off exactly at noon. I wanted people in the streets was going crazy. Oh, crazy. And here's the thing. It was all broadcasted on WGN. So if you could be outside, you could actually sit in your home and watch all of these things going off at the same time on WGN. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. Like I have goosebumps just thinking about it. Yeah. That's one. Oh, crazy. Please turn up like that for two hundred. I know. Oh, please turn up for two hundred.

31:00It's so close. We're so close. Please turn up. Eleven years away. Please turn up. Two hundred is going to be crazy. Oh, we got the turn up. Yeah. We act in a food. I got drones doing fireworks shows in the sky. Trust and believe. I'm turning up. Yeah. I'm sure enough. Yeah. I haven't had a drink in like, I don't know, five years. I might have a drink that year. Let's do this. Let's do this. Let's do this. Yeah. It's a mesh. Well, we're 11 years. None of the beef. We'd be 16 years old. 16 years old. Yeah. The podcast. Oh, I was like, I'll be 16. It's known, but 33 plus eleven. I'll be 44. Hey shit. I, uh. Whoo. I'll be 53. Three. Let's go. Let's go. Yeah. Tell me. That's not that old. Oh, that's not old at all. I'm turning. Oh. I'm James, you won't send it. But your. You're gonna be unc for real. 200 I'm in there with lemon pepper steppers. I know I'm in there why like it suit man satin button For

32:00Fedora, I am hell yeah Custom Fedora to go down there. Uh, the man that night building knocking on the door talk about 200 give me that component 200 yeah, we're gonna get Gold tooth I'm this whole time the whole time go on grills grills Honestly Chicago Chicago Be ready for your boy. I'm I'm acting a whole Everything Daria does from this day forward is in preparation for Chicago 200. Yeah, Chicago 200. I'm acting a whole Yeah, well, I can't wait for that Um, but yeah, so you can imagine how like loud and celebratory the city felt and then at 2 p.m The mayor appeared at 63rd and Hallstead where he He placed a plaque and Englewood and he kind of like it was like a plaqueing of the Englewood district and kind of its role that it played in Chicago and the

33:07plaque was placed on the sidewalk on the northeast corner Um, so right there. Yeah, if you're familiar with that corner um That's where uh Kennedy King College is you correct. No, you said Dominican. No, Kennedy, Kennedy King College. Yeah, what am I talking about? Kennedy King College is right there. Yeah, and uh, so we looked There's I do have a few articles that talk about the plaque um You know, I don't want to like trust pass on their property, but I don't know exactly where it is I so I'll link I'll link the uh the articles if you're interested in and learning more about that Uh, and then at 3 p.m Which is really cool. The mayor made his way to state and Madison And this was kind of a special gift to Chicago where he placed the first of the street signs that were intended to make Chicago's um Street signs the best in the world They changed 16,862 signs to these new

34:10Like commemorative looking signs if you're on state and Madison Will notice that that specific point has those like green and gold-gilded signs And they don't look the same as like one block north or one block south, right? Uh, or I don't know Yeah, well, well North looks like the regular way they don't look they don't look like that He's the way because you the state and Van Buren uh sign is that we're here watching. Yes So yeah, there's 16,000 plus of them around the city And so that was the first one that was changed and there's a really cool picture of people standing around the street lamp Uh, that has the new the new street signs. Yeah, and so it was kind of like to put Chicago on the map like you know We're we're for real and that if you don't know that's also the point zero In Chicago's grid So that is the the center point Of the Chicago grid not necessarily the center point of the city But it's the point zero of the city now is in water now. I think I think they said is over by it's my bubbly creep It's you know, yeah, it's it's kind of like constantly it shifts a lot or there was there's a there is a plaque in front of a church

35:20But that that's not that's not really the center point. Yeah, now you know, here's the thing here's the thing with that center point We get what the that's that plaque means or the design means is that that's where it was at one point But yeah, obviously things move around. Yeah, so the city has grown It's hard to tell where the actual center is but I think right now it's pinpointed that the center of the city Geographically is in the water bubbly creep here. Um, so yeah Um, and so after 3 p.m. Kind of like the towards the evening all of the celebration moved to the Chicago stadium They they Say about 10,000 people showed up to the Chicago stadium to just like celebrate And it was kind of like a party man house on madhouse on Madison for real. Yeah, man house on Madison. No, like a 1,000 percent I look we had no way to talk about a plate of parts Chicago 200 is going to be I know you we got to ego already. Yeah

36:22200 of them thanks. I know Y'all ain't gonna be the teller shit It's already the case, but now oh my god, I just keep thinking about it and that house of Madison is already crazy So it's gone. So yeah, well, it's back Across the street But uh, that's absolutely crazy. Who was who was the representative that I will Right, so as part of that there was a picture in the in the Tribune about the I will girl and what's so weird is that her name is the exact same name as the author of The house little house on the prairie, but I don't think it's the same person Because I did a little bit more research and I was like The age doesn't seem the same It's not adding up So I don't think it's the same girl But there's a very clear picture of her standing between two men one holding the US flag one holding the Chicago flag And she is wearing the I will outfit and she was the I will girl for the celebration

37:26I mean, it was kind of crazy There's the tag y'all there it is the little bow right there, you know what I mean it was it was really cool Chicago is a her Um, I do want to talk a little bit a little bit about what Chicago looked like 10 years before Well, I do want to right before we do that. Sure. I want to finish up this I will stuff, right? Yeah, so so where we at today Chicago is still willing, you know what I mean like we That's a loaded statement actually Got to go got a lot going on right now However, there are two sculptures that I want to talk about Um, and and this is this is absolutely Just fantastic and we've all been buying Like so many times yeah so many times if you live in Lincoln Park Uh, here's what you need to do you need to go that's on the corner of Uh, it's off the Fullerton exit. Mm-hmm, right? That's the Fullerton exit. Yep, Fullerton and Canon So you're in between the children the nature museum and the Lincoln Park zoo

38:27There's kind of like a path that goes in front of the marina where people park their boats and there's this like giant metal Monument that like you're not you might not think about what it is. There is no plaque immediately next to it The plaque is actually a cross from it on top of a pile of rocks. Yes, and and here's the significance that that's a it was created by Ellsworth Ellsworth Kelly. Yeah, Ellsworth Kelly. There it is. He can read you all. Yeah, it's just not read for sure. It's just that you know um It was uh built in Eight nineteen eighty one. Yeah, three years before your boy was born Uh, but this was meant to represent Chicago's I will mentality and if you're wondering why it's right there That was the northernmost point of the Chicago fire. Right Northernmost point of the Chicago fire. So that's why it's there and that pillar represents it. That's pretty cool That's pretty cool. Now there's another one that was built in

39:312005 by the great sculptor Richard hunt And this one is called we will yeah, which is fantastic It's a and now I'm sure you've walked by it and not even paid attention. Yeah, it is right there Right on uh in the Randolph yep in the theater district right next to The Chicago Cultural Center. So tall statue like tall just as tall as the uh, I will yeah, and um kind of looks like flame It looks like planes. Yeah, um and you know, there is a description of why he named it that we will Yeah, I think it's to to you know to talk about the solidarity of Chicago. Yeah, as a city If you want to learn more about it, I've also linked in the show notes I've talked a little bit more about that sculpture so you can Check that website out, but it's a really cool um I mean, there's a ton of public art in Chicago, and there's a ton of art about the I will There's even a

40:31Street sign What is that street division? Has the I will sign in the in the Y So it's like the symbol yeah, and it's like we've incorporated it. Oh, it's grand I think I don't think it was I thought it was grand. I wanted to Uh, just walk down both and see Just go just figured out I feel like it's incorporated into a lot of what we do. It's just like not necessarily as Out there of a model anymore because we've had so much change since then Feel like the Y is a very prominent symbol even if you don't notice the Y all the time We still use it a lot and like our municipal symbols. Yeah, obviously we have like our flag is a big thing with the stars So I will kind of took like a third seat Yeah, right. I will took a third seat to the municipal divide device that device boy is kind of hard though It is so cool. That's a tough logo. I see why we just say you know why we say you know what we got a flag

41:34We can we can have that too you know me yeah, because it that's cold. It is cold Yeah, so hey look, I mean look if I was around what okay, that's a good question. What would you have voted for? The the flag and the municipal device now keep in mind the flag only had two stars Right, so what would you have picked here to think I like the symbolism behind the flag I like what every piece of it stands for Um, but I love the Chicago Y. Yeah, because he doesn't think like we love the Chicago flag now But the two stars and it was all shifted to the left, but they were talking about how they're they're leaving room for more That would have been a selling point that I would have had to consider because they were looking at I'd have been like Hey, you don't look it's empty. You know me. Yeah, but but then thinking about Oh, we left it because we about to be some okay. Yeah, but then you had a full Municipal device. Right. Oh, I don't know. I don't know my boy would my boy would have been I think the The flag is more symbolic now Right even that you know

42:38Yeah, it's more symbolic of what Chicago was doing the why is just like a cooler looking symbol But yeah, but I feel like that's just like one element of Chicago, but like the flag covers way more The water was a big thing. It's you know, that this is a good pole That's a good pole to it because like what would you care if yeah, what would you have picked? Honestly, it because we all know the flag today So it's hard for us. We are I thought prices already As Dario's like arm is flanked with it the flag I mean, I think you've already picked Now, but I'm saying back then if I had to put myself back in with that knowledge. Yeah, I don't know man. I don't know Let's talk about what what are the Ten years before I will where were we this is Chicago in 1882

43:41I mean, we're booming. Yeah, we just started rebuild. We're 10 years into the rebuild Right, we just had our first skyscraper Isn't that crazy 1885's first skyscraper art institute 1882 Hey, oh, and here's the art institute. That was it was a different name. Yeah, it was a different name Yeah, WMR Prince right was he was running that The reaper in 1886 and then shortly after the All right, all that happened Shit Wow, all that happened in the eight in the like 1880's and Marshall fields finished their warehouse in 1887 Which was like one of the biggest accomplishments of any like wait, you know, so so Marshall feels They finished their warehouse, but that was that was them moving into the warehouse that was already there Also, real company was right So they think wow, yeah, so it was a good decade first Chicago the 1880's was a was a good time to be in here So you could see why we were like she we need this party. And look, there's a thing

44:45I think what was it the the world's fair was decided Five years four or five years before that so at this you know right around 1880 Eight we was already knowing we're gonna play here. So and I'm sure the thought process was look we need to we need to get on this Yeah, we can build it time for you know, so damn it was late It was it was uh And then ten years after so 1902 Uh, we're talking about well, I think I just added this because I like this place is the Montrose cemetery was founded Which is like a really one of the beautiful places that we have here Uh, the Chicago Defender 1903. Yeah, buddy The Chicago Federal Building was completed in 1903 and then this one I put down for you The Chicago White Sox defeated the Cubs in the only all Chicago World Series of 1906 It's now

45:451906 baby. It's been like We love I love Chicago sports man I don't know this was a really fun really fun There's a it was really hard for me to recommend any books or movies to read more about this obviously if you are interested in like The world's fair. There's a you know, you know about um Those books. There's a couple only a couple I Listen HBO. Yeah, if you're listening, which you're not but if you were one day if you're looking up Chicago history and you find this episode My plea I want someone to make a show about Chicago that is extremely historically accurate That starts in it starts with the fire in golfing the city. That's where I want episode one the side the fire is is up

46:45Okay, and I want it to literally fight. I do it. Yeah Yeah, and then I don't even like we'd like to have beef tonight. Yeah, that's crazy. I'm like And then I want it to go all the way to 1933 to the second fair That's what I want. That's my dream take it to the 30-second To the city take it to the city. Yeah, yeah, I feel like that would be such there's honestly like such missed opportunity If you're a historical fiction writer write this show or write a book. I would read I would devour a book about Chicago's Guilded Age. I don't know. I feel like there's so much to do right so well documented Like yeah, we gonna need racism and all. Yeah You have to yes, you have to You know, I want to know I want to know y'all better do the brothers right. Yeah, especially in 1933 y'all do y'all win treat us right Yeah, that's crazy But like think of like think of like you know the start of like history month the great migration like the world's fair

47:52The skyscrapers coming up like so many railroads Like it was just such a pivotal 60 years in the US history that all happened in Chicago. Yeah, like I'm begging for a millionaire To make this happen if I had if I had like millions of dollars that would be all I would have done It would have been done and I don't even care about getting my money back I mean a little But like you know if I had infinity money, that's what I would do with it. Okay. Well my dream So but if you want to learn more about Chicago's birthday We've had a couple episodes in the past. We will link those you can go listen to them. Yeah, but that's all I got for you today Nice way to start one is history month I got a question for you get out of here is Chicago's birthday if you could tell Chicago one thing We're 189 year birthday. What would you say to Chicago? Oof, that's hard. You should let me know before so I could prepare that's why I want some things on the spot shit I think um, you know

48:53We're we're a city that has a lot of flaws and That's okay because people just look can't tell shit. Yeah, you can't touch this. Okay, as I'm gonna say and you're literally outside the club So I don't know your opinion doesn't even matter. Uh, I think like as a city Uh, we can we've proven this year more than anything that you know, yes, that we are segregated But we are one. It's a very strong resilient city and Without us this country wouldn't be should right Right. Yeah, right. Happy birthday Chicago. Hey, look if I had tell Chicago one thing. I would say Continue to lead Continue to lead not only does nation will continue to lead the world in Okay, mr. President. Yeah, yeah, as as you know a polarizing place. Yeah, they always gonna talk about you When we get to year 200 they gonna talk about you they're gonna talk crazy to you, but you know what we still here

49:55We see we still here arguably like better. Yeah, man look been in a while. What what what this thing say Chicago will rise again and again and again. So Chicago every 189 baby. We're gonna see you It's a whole year, man. Yeah, that's all I got the next one. You know over here over your brother. Yeah, that's all like I said All right. Yeah. Okay. Well, thanks so much for listening. If you enjoyed this episode Please share it with someone you love We would love for more people to listen to this visit our new website 77 flavors dot org and come back next week We have some phenomenal collection of women focused episodes this month. We can't wait for you to learn more peace Thank you so much for listening to today's episode and we hope you loved it and if you could please follow us on social media at

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