TWA from Friday, August 4, 2017

“It was a quiet way” by Emily Dickinson. Public domain.

ORIGINAL TEXT AND AUDIO - 2017

The plans for the city of Chicago were laid out on this date in 1830.

The area's original settlers were the Algonquian people. They dubbed it "Shikaakwa," which means "stinky onion." The first outsider to build a permanent home in the area was a black man named Jean Bap…