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Wednesday on Worldview: Politics at the Olympics and farro music from Brazil. 

As 1951 turned into 1952, many Chicagoans noticed that their meat was tasting – well, different. They found out they’d been eating horse meat.

What can a bronze rectangle tell us about mayors like Jane Byrne, Bill Thompson and Anton Cermak? Historian John Schmidt reads plaques and he's not afraid to admit it. 

On this June 26th in 1925, Chicagoans were talking secession. Maybe it was time the city broke off from the rest of Illinois and formed a new state.

With less than five months to go, the presidential campaigns are focused on capturing the voting blocs that can help tip the scales in their favor come November.

When Long John Wentworth was elected mayor in the spring of 1857, he pledged to clean up the city. Today that would mean an attack on political corruption. In Long John’s time, he meant a literal clean up: Chicago looked like a junkyard.

The Congress Parkway bridge over the river finally re-opened a few weeks ago. If you’re like most of the thousands of people who drive it every day, you probably don’t realize the bridge is officially named for Clarence Wagner.