Chicago History Podcast

Episode 406 - "Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age" with author Martin Billheimer

Dec 11, 2021

23:43

Chicago Tribune writer Rick Kogan called Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age “one of the most revelatory, provocative, frightening books I've ever read about Chicago."

In this episode, I talk with the book's author, Martin Billheimer, about the Chicago Parental School, Chicago's Tuberculosis Sanitarium, the Dunning Asylum, and much more.

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