Pocket Guide to Hell Lumpen Radio
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Pocket Guide to Hell explores the intersections of art, politics, and culture as illuminated by Chicago's past. Along the way, hosts Paul Durica and Elliot Heilman talk with fine folks doing the work of keeping the past present and show you the places where the city's history resides today.
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Pocket Guide to Hell • S1 E1: A Great Drama
Elliot and Paul discuss the centennial of women's suffrage and its legacy with the Chicago League of Women Voters' Anne Jamieson and learn about the Parkway Community House and the Vivian G. Harsh Collection with Chicago Public Library's Beverly Cook.
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Pocket Guide to Hell • S1 E2: The Lost City
Graffiti artist Gloria Talamantes and historian Carl Smith help Elliot and Paul understand what Chicago's built environment reveals about our shared past.
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Pocket Guide to Hell • S1 E3: This City’s Not Ready for Reform
Elliot and Paul explore corruption on the ballfield and in the city council with author Bill Savage and journalist Paul Dailing.
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Pocket Guide to Hell • S1 E4: Building, Breaking, Rebuilding
Preservation Chicago's Ward Miller talks with Elliot and Paul about the challenges facing architectural preservation in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, and 25th Ward Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez shares his thoughts on a proposed landmark district in the Pilsen neighborhood.
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Pocket Guide to Hell • S2 E4: Chicago's 7 Most Endangered
Paul talks with Ward Miller, executive director of Preservation Chicago, about the nonprofit's annual list of the seven most endangered structures and spaces in Chicago.
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Pocket Guide to Hell • S2 E3: Get Caponi!
Paul talks with Elliot about efforts the find the earliest references to Al Capone and then with John Corbett and Julia Klein about a “lost” encyclopedia of the Chicago underworld, Bullets for Dead Hoods.