{"podcast":{"title":"Questioning Everything","slug":"questioning-everything-7654512","podcast_index_feed_id":7654512,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10e926c4c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://imtheimprobabledreamer.podbean.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/45294443/45294443-1769922012638-09ddb34ac5e33.jpg","author":"The Improbable Dreamer","episode_count":64,"summary":"The show where its ok to admit we really know nothing at all about this world around us. We know what they tell us in the news is a carefully crafted narrative often devoid of any actual truth, same most certainly can be said about everything we have been taught in school from the fundamentals of history, to the fundamental nature of this world we call home, so lets explore this world without the blinders on together and figure out and discuss what we discover together.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T06:19:06.577220+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/questioning-everything-7654512"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 38 Old World Chicago","slug":"episode-38-old-world-chicago","published_at":"2026-04-24T06:35:38+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/questioning-everything-7654512/episode-38-old-world-chicago","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/questioning-everything-7654512","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jake-the-doctor/episodes/Episode-38-Old-World-Chicago-e3id1ka","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO5736792196.mp3","summary":"On this episode of Questioning Everything we explore the mysterious history of Chicago, focusing on the Great Fire of 1871, old world maps, and advanced ancient engineering. Uncover anomalies in construction, city origins, and the possibility of ancient civilizations shaping modern landscapes. Just like we did with Old World New York, we’re pulling back the curtain on the Windy City’s hidden past. On the same single night as the Great Chicago Fire, multiple massive fires erupted across the entire Lake Michigan region yet Chicago somehow became the only story that mattered. Just 22 years later, they built the legendary 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition the “White City” erecting hundreds of enormous, ornate Beaux-Arts buildings in record time, only to tear nearly all of them down immediately after the fair ended. We’re digging into the impossible construction timelines, the mysterious Medina Club, the buried ruins still hidden beneath the city, and the very real possibility that Chicago was built on top of something far older and far more advanced than we’ve been told. Question Everything! Support this channel: buymeacoffee.com/TheDoctor3940 Venmo-@TheDoctorregenerated key topics The timeline and anomalies of the Great Fire of 1871 Old world maps showing Chicago as Chilaga Artificial lakes and water cribs off Lake Michigan Impossible construction timelines of the 1893 World's Fair The hidden history behind Chicago's architecture and city planning Chapters 00:00 Introduction and episode overview 02:21 Previous episodes and guest mentions 04:14 Major cities as focal points of hidden history 05:23 Missing scientists and suspicious deaths 06:58 The Chicago Great Fire of 1871 and simultaneous fires 08:21 Old world maps and the geographic history of Chicago 10:43 Details of th…","meta_description":"On this episode of Questioning Everything we explore the mysterious history of Chicago, focusing on the Great Fire of 1871, old world maps, and advanced a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5196,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/questioning-everything-7654512/episodes/episode-38-old-world-chicago/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/questioning-everything-7654512/episode-38-old-world-chicago.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}