University of Chicago student Alice Ye interviewed Chicago Transportation Historian for her group's Curious City investigation into what the South Side of Chicago looked like before the Dan Ryan Expressway was built. 

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Interview with Transportation Historian Andy Plummer

Samantha Brown found South Side Tour Guide Paul Bruce via calling up a ton of South Side churches and asking who remembered what the area was like before the Dan Ryan. 

Paul is in his late 80s and has an incredible memory. He's been guiding for more than a dozen years and has a story (or two) for seemingly every bock on the South Side. 

The female voices you'll hear are Samantha Brown's and Curious City Senior Producer Jennifer Brandel's. 

Interview with South Side Tour Guide Paul Bruce

Jim Kohout, a buyer and seller at produce house Dietz & Kolodenko, talks to our group about the working conditions at the old South Water Market.

Recorded by WBEZ's Jennifer Brandel.

Dietz & Kolodenko seller Jim Kohout, on the old South Water Market

Sidney Bernard Williams III, a hustler at Dietz & Kolodenko, explains how to work the mechanized dolly, called a PowerJack, that he uses to move crates of produce around.

Recorded by WBEZ's Jennifer Brandel.

How to operate a PowerJack

Billy Aragones, a hustler at Dietz & Kolodenko, describes what it's like to work at the Chicago International Produce Market.

Recorded by WBEZ's Jennifer Brandel.

The Chicago Produce Market: a city within a city

The hustlers discuss the culture of working in a produce market.

Recorded by WBEZ's Jennifer Brandel.

Buildings As Evidence