In this episode Alyssa tells Hugh about the "State Street Mall." He spends a lot of time, rightfully baffled.
Subscribe, leave a five-star review, tell your friends and follow on Twitter, BlueSky, Instagram
Show Notes:
Chicago Tribune: Flashback: The State Street Mall, billed as a car-free shopping mecca, started with high hopes but ended in failure and bus fumes
Chicago Tribune: The failure of the State Street Mall
Chicago Tribune: Stiltwalkers, a high-diving mule and other efforts to make State Street great again
Governing: The Strange, Troubled History of Pedestrian Malls
Chicago Sun-Times: Opinion of the The People
Chicago Sun-Times: McDonough Opposes State Street Mall Day
Chicago Sun-Times: New Plan's Face Lift for Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times: Council Unit gets State Street Mall Plan
Chicago Sun-Times: Daley Seen Pushing State Street Mall
Chicago Sun-Times: Plan Commission Oks State Street Mall
Chicago Sun-Times: Pick South Loop for College
Chicago Sun-Times: Federal Aid?
Chicago Sun-Times: Building Industry's Decline Expected to Last Two Years
Chicago Sun-Times: Projects that Never Made It.
Chicago Sun-Times: Cows
Chicago Sun-Times: State Street Squeeze
Chicago Sun-Times: An Enviable Track Record
Chicago Sun-Times: State Street Breakdown
Chicago Sun-Times: How Those Central City Projects are Coming Along
Chicago Sun-Times: State St. Mall One Step Closer
Chicago Sun-Times: Mayor OKs Mall revamp - Vows to help State St. business leaders
Chicago Sun-Times: State St. Mall's new look may be skimpy
Chicago Sun-Times: $30 million State Street Mall boostChicago Sun-Times: End of the road for State St. Mall - Daley calls it a `failure,' backs return to full use
Chicago Sun-Times: A great street, but a bad mall - `Failure' spurs city to allow cars on State
Chicago Sun-Times: Cars, Perhaps Trolley, To Replace State St. Mall
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
