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Recorded and broadcast by WXRT FM in Chicago, as part of their Un-Concert series (sponsored by 7-Up, the Un-Cola). Stray Cats are an American rockabilly band formed in 1979 by guitarist and vocalist Brian Setzer, double bassist Lee Rocker, and drummer Slim Jim Phantom in the Long Island town of...

Elmore James (27.01.1918 - 24.05.1963), the King of the Slide Guitar. Actual name Elmore Brooks, an illegitimate son of 15-year-old Leola Brooks. He was influenced by Robert Johnson, Kokomo Arnold and Tampa Red, and Elmore has in turn influenced many guitarists. From 1951 he has recorded for the...

Chicago taxpayers will spend $3.5 million to compensate a man who suffered a traumatic brain injury when a dead tree neglected by the city fell and hit him on his head. Nicholas Pellegrino was examining his car battery on a leafy residential street near his North Side home when the tree that...

NGC AU-58 M-ILL-26

I'm giggling because I bought this paperweight for 10 cents. Funny thing is that it has 3 shiny new quarters in it. 1952 + 1962 + 1963. It made money sense to me. Paperweight says: " MCA, Mechanical Contractors Association, Three Quarters of a Century of Progress, Chicago, Ill May, 1964"...

Need help ID'ing World's Fair Item Hey, fellow treasure hunters! I found this item from the Chicago World's Fair in the ruins of an old PA farmhouse. I have had no success in my research to determine what it was originally or what it might be worth. :icon_scratch: If you have any ideas, that...

I recently stumbled upon a group of 20 CTA tokens in my house. The original package is also still there. What are they worth? Here are some pictures