Ira Glass: One Chicago Street Corner Has the Entire History of America

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This American Life host Ira Glass on writer Sarah Vowell's essay about the corner of Michigan and Wacker in Chicago — where Abraham Lincoln was nominated for president, where the machines that mechanized American farming were built, where Nixon and JFK held the first televised presidential debate, and where Al Capone operated.

Listen to the full story: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/128/four-corners/act-one-3