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Vintage Chicago with Kori Rumore: Playboy magazine, University of Chicago scientists completing the first manmade nuclear reaction, Pizzeria Uno

Curator of the Vintage Tribune Kori Rumore and the Steve Cochran Show travel back in time to talk about Hugh Hefner launching Playboy magazine in his Hyde Park apartment in 1953, University of Chicago scientists completing the first manmade nuclear reaction under the direction of Nobel-prize winning Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in a squash court under Stagg Field in 1942, and the Pizzeria Uno opening at Ohio Street and Wabash Avenue in 1943.