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Ask Geoffrey: Civil War-December 2024

Dec 19, 2025 11:36 AM

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War this month, Geoffrey Baer looks back on what he's discovered about Chicago's Civil War history in a special edition of Ask Geoffrey.

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