In 1937, 83 years before the current pandemic forced kids to find ways to learn outside of the traditional classroom, Chicago school children took classes by radio while trying to stay safe from the threat of polio.

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Episode 212 - School By Radio: The 1937 Polio Outbreak in Chicago