Episode 312 - Ku Klux Klan in Chicago, The

Chicago History Podcast

While many may think of the Ku Klux Klan as being primarily a Southern concern, in the first part of the 20th century larger cities to the north also had factions of the KKK, including Chicago, which grew to be one of the largest in the country.
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