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Andersonville
Swedish immigrant enclave of historic delis, boutiques, and a Prohibition-era speakeasy bar.
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About this audio guide
Andersonville in Chicago keeps a steel teller's window behind three panes of scratched bulletproof glass, installed decades ago in a Clark Street bar. The guide follows the Swedish immigrant behind it, Simon Lundberg, from a modest coffee shop through Prohibition, when an unplanned visit turned the back room into a basement speakeasy known only by the letters N N, allegedly supplied by Al Capone's outfit. It traces how the Depression reshaped what that room was really for, and how the bar passed from Lundberg to his son Roy and later to current owner Scott Martin.
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