Ask Geoffrey: What’s With the Out-of-Order Presidents?
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Why Loop streets honoring presidents don’t honor the order of their terms.
Geoffrey Baer investigates why the Loop’s streets honoring presidents don’t honor the order of their terms, returns to a North Side bridge to nowhere, and relates the sad story of the “radium girls” of Ottawa, Illinois.
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Ask Geoffrey: What’s With the Out-of-Order Presidents?
Clip: 2/15/2017 | 7m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Geoffrey Baer investigates why the Loop’s streets honoring presidents don’t honor the order of their terms, returns to a North Side bridge to nowhere, and relates the sad story of the “radium girls” of Ottawa, Illinois.
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