Backstory with Larry Potash

The American Dream is fueled by innovation and grit... at least that's how it worked for the man behind Nash Motors.

Craft beer has changed the game for American beer - both in how it tastes, and who brews it.

How an Illinois prairie became a wartime bomb making facility, and the site of a deadly tragedy.

When he was a young boy, he lost his dog in a freak accident... so he sent a letter to the White House to get a new one.

Illinois was a free state before the Civil War, but that didn't stop one man from kidnapping freed slaves and selling them back into slavery.

A President challenges "out of shape" Naval officers with an historic stunt.

The forgotten leader of Chicago who fought enemies at home and abroad. 

It's part of what makes the mile magnificent: how Chicago's Intercontinental Hotel came to be.

How Lincoln's early years, and an unlikely alliance helped him rise to the highest office in the land.

It took a man of dubious moral character to infiltrate and bring justice to the 1860's KKK...

Take a trip back through time to discover three lost stories of Chicago history.

How one of the original stand-ups can show us what humor's really good for.

He was a bootlegger bigger than Capone, but you've probably never heard of him.

A century later, how the legacy of the Negro Leagues lives on.

The Turtle Tunnels are a network of passageways in the basement of an old building in El Paso, Texas.... but who put them there?