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Halloween is coming! Enjoy this episode about Chicago's ghoulish past, including tales of forgotten cemeteries, grave robbers, mob graveyards, and more. Expanded and re-recorded from the original, released Oct. 2020..

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Chicago has had its share of bizarre incidents resulting in death, including the Pain Fireworks Company Explosion of 1914.

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Here's one originally released in August 2021 that you may not have heard. Enjoy.

He was the son of one of the wealthiest men in Chicago, and on one fateful night he was shot under mysterious circumstances. Was Marshall Field Jr.'s death an accident or something much darker that was covered up by powerful forces?

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