Do Descendants Of Native Tribes Live In Chicago?
In a word, yes. How many? That’s not so easy to answer.
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Investigation timeline: the Kennedy’s reversible highway lanes
This question from Mike Cunningham won our third Curious City voting round: “What are the rules around the reversible lanes on the Kennedy Expressway? Has the idea worked?” We’ll have updates as our …
The battle of the pastries: Doughnuts vs. cupcakes
How does a pastry trend take off?
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Another round of Curious City questions: Curious how all this works?
Within a week of Curious City’s launch, we received about 50 questions. The next week, that number almost doubled. Take a look inside the project’s inner workings.
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Question answered: Did Al Capone leave behind secret tunnels?
Curious City gets to the ‘Yes,’ ‘Maybe,’ and ‘Well, sort of’ at the bottom of listener Katie Conrad’s question. After all of our cold-calling, cajoling and suburban spelunking, the question remains.
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Behind the scenes of WBEZ’s Curious City
WBEZ’s Curious City is an experimental project and part of the national Localore initiative. Among our goals is to make the journalistic process more democratic and transparent. In that same vein, …
About Curious City
Curious City is a news-gathering experiment designed to satisfy your curiosities. You ask your questions about Chicago, the region and the people who live here, vote for your favorites, and together …
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