Pure Hype began on WHPK in 1986 as a way to promote upcoming indie rock shows with free
tickets and interviews with musicians. By 1988, the show also began hosting live performances in the middle of the radio station’s record library.
Category Archives: History
This is Julia (Julia 3)
The Indian Termination Policy from the 1940s to 1960s encouraged Native Americans migration to cities like Chicago, where they often settled in the Uptown neighborhood. In the 1970s, a movement for self determination inspired public school programs meant to reintroduce native children to their heritage.
It’s Two (James 25)
The Seminary Coop Bookstore began in 1961 when a small group of students grouped
together to buy academic books at a discount. In 2013 it moved from the basement
of the Chicago Theological Seminary to the McGiffert House, a former CTS dormitory.
Bag of Chips (Chris 27)
In the 1980s, video stores sold eighteen inch statues with oversized heads of celebrities from music, TV and film. From the 1950s to the 1990s, Esco Products of Brooklyn fabricated hundreds of different figures, from Groucho Marx to Louis Armstrong.
Give me a call (unknown)
The mixing of entertainment and news can be traced back to the penny press, but the
for the model of New Yorker style personal journalism, we might look to The Spectator
column from the nineteenth century magazine The Outlook.
Paul Mason Fotsch 