This 19th-Century Outlaw Nightclub Proprietress was ‘Bigger than the City of Milwaukee’

Matthew PriggeSeptember 16, 2018

All Rosina Georg had was her nightclub, and she was not going to let the City of Milwaukee tell her how to run it, no matter how many times they arrested her. ...

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The 1944 Milwaukee Chicks Were the League of Our Own

Matthew PriggeSeptember 12, 2018

The Milwaukee Chicks made the most of their only season in the Cream City, bashing their way to a women's professional championship in 1944. ...

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‘The Birth of a Nation’ Might Never Have Been Made if Not For Waukesha Movie Mogul Harry Aitken

Matthew PriggeSeptember 10, 2018

'The Birth of a Nation' is a landmark motion picture. It also helped to set back the cause of Civil Rights in the US. It was the efforts of a Waukesha farmboy-turned-Hollywood power broker that got it made. ...

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6 Places in Milwaukee That Used to be the Site of a Graveyard

Matthew PriggeSeptember 2, 2018

These final resting places were not so final after all. We track the course of the dead and displaced....

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The Curious Case of the Cross-Dressing Corpse

Matt HrodeyAugust 21, 2018

Whatever happened to Madison’s chimney man, it was ghastly. ...

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The Strange True Story of the Disappearance of Flight 2501 Over Milwaukee

Matthew PriggeAugust 6, 2018

The doomed aircraft has still never been found....

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The American Club Hotel in Kohler Celebrates 100 Years

Caroline BlairAugust 3, 2018

Celebrations for the hotel's remarkable milestone include a parade, live music and fireworks...

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Milwaukee Myth-O-Meter: 5 Local Myths, Busted

Matt HrodeyJuly 22, 2018

We put these urban legends to the test to see which ones hold up!...

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The Unsolved Mystery of the Wannabe Mafioso (Who Got Whacked)

Claire HananJuly 19, 2018

Max Adonnis had no shortage of enemies....

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Unsolved Mystery: Jack, Cadillac Daddy and the Murder of Lillian

Matthew PriggeJuly 8, 2018

It was a date with death....

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The Story of Milwaukee’s Lost Fishing Village

John GurdaJune 27, 2018

Before its ultra-industrial present, Jones Island was a vibrant community of seafaring squatters from the shores of the Baltic....

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What You Might Not Know About Carl Sandburg’s Milwaukee Roots

Matthew PriggeMay 31, 2018

Before he was one of the country’s most beloved writers, Carl Sandburg was a young Milwaukeean with big dreams. ...

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