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Why does Chicago not have hot dog carts where people can buy Chicago dogs?

Asked by Beth Kregor

What's the history and current status of weekly air raid siren testing in Chicago? What technology is used and how are they broadcast?

Asked by Anonymous

Why did we get rid of all the street cars that used to be so prominent? I see them all over in old photographs.

Asked by Trevor Wills

Why is there a Mongolian consulate in Chicago? Is there a substantial Mongolian population in the area?

Asked by Peter Jones

Who founded Jones Commercial School? William Jones, credited w/ founding Jones Coll Prep, or prominent African American, John Jones?

Asked by Stacie Daley

Wasn’t there a polo grounds in downtown Chicago in the 1990s east of Michigan Avenue and north of Randolph?

Asked by Radhika Sharma Gordon

I remember taking the El and a conductor called it the “love train”. He kept me laughing all the way to downtown. What happened to him?

Asked by Cecilia Carman

Why haven't the Chicago Bears ever featured the bear logo on their helmets?

Asked by Anonymous

Why does the CTA include in its announcements a ban on gambling? Was this a major issue at one time? Is it still?

Asked by Anonymous

The 2006 O'Hare UFO sighting! Apparently there's footage a pilot got on his phone, can you find it?

Asked by Jon Klocek

Is the old original part of McCormick Place convention center still in use? Doesn't seem like it whenever I'm there for C2E2 or the BoatShow

Asked by Doug Teaney

Has Chicago's response to winter weather changed? As the climate shifts, are we smarter or whimpier in dealing with winter weather? Or Both?

Asked by Alison Paul

How has the small plot of Unincorporated Central Stickney not been annexed by Chicago or bordering suburb?

Asked by Tony Polcaster

There's a 'Memorial Plaque' in West Lawn "in honorary memory" of an unnamed "labor's cause" with a couple of names but no other info.

Asked by Migdalia Jimenez

Walking in Bucktown, I noticed that E-W house numbers don't go over 50 per block. Is this true N-S? Is it the same E of State?

Asked by Joe Mason

I read that an old port town, St. John, disappeared into Lake Michigan in the 1850s near Highland Park. What happened?

Asked by Jen Minarik

How did a LOT of Merta cars and engines end up abandoned near the US Mexico border?

Asked by Jake

What's the University of Chicago's relationship with free speech, historically? (In relation to Bannon's upcoming presence on a panel there)

Asked by Eliza Lambert

Why is the London Guarantee Building, now London house, wrapped in hundreds swastikas, all visibly from street level?

Asked by Greg Patricoski

What is up with the stone pylon tucked between the Arkadia Building and the Kennedy, on the south side of Adams Street?

Asked by Elizabeth Milnarik

Why is it that Chicago's majority Mexican neighborhoods were all historically Czech? Is there a special relationship between the two?

Asked by Gary Yang

Why can’t you buy liquor before church hours on Sundays?

Asked by Abram

Why do some Chicagoans pronounce the name of the state ILL-inois and some pronounce it ELL-inois? Does it depend on where you grew up?

Asked by Anonymous

Most major roadways on the north side are named after people or places; why is Division St different? Did Division St ever divide something?

Asked by Sloane Danehy McNulty

What's up with Chicago's diagonal streets?

Asked by Dylan Reynolds

There may be only one large statue of a woman in Chicago, but in the Chicago Cultural Center, there is not a single woman's name!

Asked by Janice Rosenberg

Not the right place for this but... Nichelle Nichols, she should have a statue!

Asked by Anonymous

My teacher was in a contest as a 6 year old called Little Miss Peanut and we saw her picture in the Leader newspaper. What happened Leader?

Asked by Emily

Where do WBEZ's call letters come from?

Asked by Elizabeth Greiwe

What's that monolothic, art-deco, bas relief monumental object in the corner of Horner Park?

Asked by Bill Decker

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