Infinite Road
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Chicago → Milwaukee

North along the lake, brewery town to brewery town. Tap a numbered dot and listen.

Narrated by The Chronicler Focus: Prohibition & Gangster Lore 149 km · about 87 min · 18 stories

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Chicago, Illinois

    The SS Eastland Disaster

  2. 2
    Chicago, Illinois

    Al Capone’s Chicago Empire Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  3. 3
    Chicago, Illinois

    Al Capone’s Chicago Empire Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  4. 4
    Skokie, Illinois

    Al Capone’s Chicago Empire Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  5. 5
    Northbrook, Illinois

    The North Side Gang

  6. 6
    Northbrook, Illinois

    The Miller Brewing Family Transition

  7. 7
    Lake Forest, Illinois

    The 1906 Onwentsia Open

  8. 8
    Lake Bluff, Illinois

    The Great Lakes Naval Station

  9. 9
    Gurnee, Illinois

    The Chicago Outfit's Suburban Expansion

  10. 10
    Old Mill Creek, Illinois

    The North Shore Rum-Running Corridor

  11. 11
    Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin

    Chain O'Lakes Prohibition Hideouts

  12. 12
    Kenosha, Wisconsin

    The Innovation of Nash Motors

  13. 13
    Sturtevant, Wisconsin

    The Reign of Frank Balistrieri

  14. 14
    Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin

    Racine Industrial Innovation History

  15. 15
    Caledonia, Wisconsin

    The Schlitz Brewing Struggle

  16. 16
    Oak Creek, Wisconsin

    The Painesville Free Congregation

  17. 17
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Milwaukee's Beer Barons at Rest

  18. 18
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    The Invention of Ergonomic Seating

Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.