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This museum is the largest of its kind in the Western hemisphere.
What is the Museum of Science and Industry?
In 1900 nearly a quarter of the Jewish Russians arriving in the US were employed in this business.
What is the garment business?
This jazz great was nicknamed "Bird" after he scurried to retrieve a chicken that had been run over by the car he was travelling in, to cook it for dinner.
Who is Charlie "Bird" Parker?
The most active muscles in your body.
What are the eyes?
Ira Flatow covers all of the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies and other cool stuff.
What is Science Friday?
The second oldest ballpark in MLB.
What is Wrigley Field?
These European Jews lived in France or Germany before migrating to Eastern Europe.
What is Ashkenazim?
A mouthpiece made from this material would normally be found on a tenor sax in a big band.
What is metal? It creates a louder sound in order to be heard over the drums.
Your eyes typically blink this many times a minute.
What is 15-20?
She's anything but gross, but master conversationalist, Terry draws us in on this interview formatted show.
What is Fresh Air?
This center which originated as the city's first public library is home to the world's largest Tiffany dome.
What is the Chicago Cultural Center?
Around the turn of the 20th century, one quarter of the arriving Russian Jewish immigrants were under this age.
What is 14 years old?
This very eclectic saxophonist/composer's music combines elements of jazz, punk, avant-garde and klezmer. He developed the musical 'game', "Cobra" and released the 1988 album, "Naked City".
Who is John Zorn?
This aquatic mammal can sleep with one eye open.
What is a dolphin?
Humorous weekly news quizzes abound on this Chicago taped show.
What is "Wait, wait, don't tell me!"?
The largest and most complex T-Rex specimen in the country, Sue is housed here.
What is the Field Museum of Natural History?
Usually, when new Jewish immigrants arrived in New York, a representative of this organization appeared at Ellis Island to help them re-settle.
What is the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)?
This sax has a spit valve on the bottom part of the neckpiece to let out any spit which gets into the horn.
What is a baritone sax?
The lifespan of this part of the outer eye lasts about 5 months.
What is the eyelash?
This storytelling NPR show has nothing to do with Lepidoptera.
What is the Moth Radio Hour?
The starting point of “Historic Route 66” at Grant Park on Adams Street is in front of this building.
What is the Art Institute of Chicago?
In order to avoid shop work, many Russian Jews did this type of work in the city streets, putting on a backpack full of inexpensive wares and going door to door to sell them.
What are peddlers?
This saxophone manufacturer produces the 'Super Action 80' series.
What is Selmer?
The eyeball of a human weighs approximately this amount.
What is 1 ounce?
First news program on NPR premiering in 1971 with Ari Shapiro, Ailsa Chang, Audie Cornish and Mary Louise Kelly who leave no stone unturned.
What is ATC - All Things Considered?