Episode 212 - School By Radio: The 1937 Polio Outbreak in Chicago

In 1937, 83 years before the current pandemic forced kids to find ways to learn outside of the traditional classroom, Chicago school child learned by radio. This is that story and the story of polio in Chicago.

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