Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle are out to dig our recenty-appointed Senator Burris’s grave – little do they know that he’s beaten them to punch! In what may be one of the strangest things in Chicago cemeteries today (which is saying something!), out in Oak Woods cemetery, Burris has already erected…
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Podcast Update
It’s been some time since we posted an episode of the Weird Chicago podcast (available on iTunes for free!), but at least a couple will be coming VERY soon, including: 1. UpdatesUpdates on what’s been going on, ghost-wise and research-wise, at the places we’ve featured on other podcasts. There’s a lot of catching up to…
Al Capone’s House for Sale
There’s hardly an old building in the cit that people don’t say was once owned by Al Capone, Chicago’s own real-live version of Jabba the Hutt. Almost all such stories are nonsense; he kept a rather low profile in the city. But there’s one house that we can all agree that he owned down on…
The Snowman That Came to Life in Logan Square
As the holidays roll around, let’s consider a REALLY weird piece of Chicago history – the snowman that allegedly came to life in Logan Square in 1958. According to legend, the snow man became sentient after children placed a mysterious black hat on his head, and, after beginning to dance around, he ran away through…
Farewell, House of Crosses!
A true Weird Chicago landmark, the House of Crosses is no more. It was already abandoned by the time we started up the company, and was a staple on our earliest tours. The house went on the market a couple of years ago, and was presumed to be a tear-down property. Most of the crosses…
Countless Historical Chicago shots!
Google has put about 20% of LIFE magazines 10 million-shot photo archive online, and plans to get the rest up eventually. Thousands of new Chicago images are up. This is a GOLD MINE, folks! Who knows what will turn up? New shots of rarely-seen criminals? A new shot of the Fool Killer Submarine? Of the…
The “Lost” New York Times article
Last week, I was asked to write an article about looking for the ghost of Teddy Roosevelt in teh Congress Hotel for today’s edition of The New York Times. They ended up not having room for it in the end (or maybe they wanted me to come off as more of a goofball), so here…
Tornado Update
Well, here it is: the morning after. It looks like the reports of tornadoes are being disputed, and no news report is saying anything about severe damage in Midlothian, the town where Bachelor’s Grove is. So it was probably nothing.