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  • 12.11.2025

    The Hidden Secret That Started It All

    The Hidden Secret That Started It All

    Long before skyscrapers, Chicago was a wild, garlic-scented crossroads where tribes traveled a treacherous portage that connected two vast water worlds. This muddy vein tested the strong, swallowed the unworthy, and shaped the destiny of nations. Chicago didn’t rise by chance; fate had already chosen its future. Continue reading

    American Origins, art, books, Chicago history, Early Chicago, fiction, Forgotten Places, Great Lakes Stories, Historical Chicago, Indigenous History, Mythic History, Portage Paths, Prairie Stories, reflective storytelling, Shikaakwa, writing
  • 11.11.2025

    Mud, Money, and the Making of Chicago

    Mud, Money, and the Making of Chicago

    Chicago wasn’t just built on a swamp. It was built on secrets. Long before deep dish and the Cubs, real estate barons, rail kings, and quiet schemers carved their empires in the mud. This isn’t the Chicago on postcards, it’s the one written between the lines of history. Continue reading

    art, Bertha Palmer, chicago, Chicago history, Chicago mansions, food, forgotten Chicago, George Pullman, Gilded Age, illinois, Marshall Field, Potter Palmer, power and politics, real estate barons

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