Episode 325 - Ghoulish Chicago: The Tango Teacher Murder

10/30/21 • 22 min

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They called me many things... “Monster,” “The Man Without A Soul,” “Hammer Man.”

My name is Henry Spencer and this is the story of the Tango Teacher Murder.
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The Sears Tower (now WIllis Tower) was once the tallest building in the world and is easily the most recognizable building in Chicago, but that building was not the first Sears Tower. In this episode we're discussing the Original Sears Tower.

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There are approximately 1,500 shipwrecks on the bottom of Lake Michigan. Of those lost, none resulted in as great a loss of life as the one that went down on September 8, 1860, off the shores north of the city of Chicago. Today’s we’re discussing the “Titanic of the Great Lakes” – the Sinking of the Lady Elgin.
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