The Strangest Things Happening In Chicago Right Now — 25 Unhinged Chicago Facts

Did you know that in spring 2024, Chicago was the epicenter of a natural event that had not occurred since Thomas Jefferson was president — and will not occur again until every person watching this video is gone? Or that the nuclear age began in a squash court under a University of Chicago football stadium on December 2nd, 1942, with 49 scientists, no evacuation plan, and a single man holding a wooden rod as the only barrier between an uncontrolled reaction and half a million civilians who were never told what was happening beneath them? Or that 844 people drowned in the Chicago River in 20 feet of water — while the boat was still tied to the dock — and their bodies were laid in rows on the floor of a building you have almost certainly watched on television?