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it involved not only a road race of 54 miles from chicago to evanston and back, but it also involved qualifying tests. how reliable was your automobile? now, what was the great incentive? the prize purse of $5,000, which in today's dollars is $155,000. so every tinkerer, every bicycle mechanic, every engineer got busy because they wanted to enter the first automobile race and get their portion of the prize. so here's the path they took, started in jackson park, which was the setting for the 1893 world's columbian exposition. only two years earlier, they went up michigan avenue, lakeshore drive, all the way to evanston and came back south, went a little bit further west, picked up milwaukee avenue, went through humboldt park, garfield park, douglas park, and back to jackson park. now this competition was announced in the summer of 1895. but for various reasons, the actual race wasn't held to later in the year. it was actually held on november 28, 1895, which was thanksgiving day initially over 80 individuals registered to paicipate in the race. but when it came to the actual day of th
it involved not only a road race of 54 miles from chicago to evanston and back, but it also involved qualifying tests. how reliable was your automobile? now, what was the great incentive? the prize purse of $5,000, which in today's dollars is $155,000. so every tinkerer, every bicycle mechanic, every engineer got busy because they wanted to enter the first automobile race and get their portion of the prize. so here's the path they took, started in jackson park, which was the setting for the...
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hoboken, new jersey, evanston,ville, and others, they're pursuing their zero vision plans. minneapolis, spokane, mount ranier, salinas, california. hundreds and hundreds of communities benefiting from this. if you are not already part of that i -- i hope you'll consider it. while we're at it, i want you to know we're working to make sure our safety vision helps those in every mode of transportation. we're congresswomanning up on the up with-year mark of the -- of the rail accident in palestine. we are holding railroads accountable, supporting first roe spoppedders, protecting rail workers. there was a bipartisan railway safety act sitting in congress, waiting its turn, right now. let's not allow america to get to that one-year mark and not have that railway safety act become law. i think your voices need to be heard in this because mayors and your emergency services department shouldn't be in the dark about what's coming through your communities. we're doing our part with the authorities we have. congress ought to be helping. we're calling on congress not to get sucked into
hoboken, new jersey, evanston,ville, and others, they're pursuing their zero vision plans. minneapolis, spokane, mount ranier, salinas, california. hundreds and hundreds of communities benefiting from this. if you are not already part of that i -- i hope you'll consider it. while we're at it, i want you to know we're working to make sure our safety vision helps those in every mode of transportation. we're congresswomanning up on the up with-year mark of the -- of the rail accident in palestine....
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a radius evanston said, oh, some of them just ways income. they some of them on the, again, on the torture. this is asians awful. that's why that's why, of course, every normal custom says is a freight, the about the security is that those person who wrote saying some things for to people. and jessica biggest size that so richard method this invasion in the russia, unfortunately them out. but in any case, we believe that sooner or later, i believe just assume this is the issue, was that changing on the was a stall pressure and then total boarding as well because people radius stuff to tory, come see the wanted to, to mr. points and they see how many thousands of people killed to him. they buckled sealed, and they see what's are pressed on is going inside the dresser. and i think that that will not last long. i'm if, if i can ask you about your, what with the exiled a politician to make, make also the coffee and the chest champion garry kasparov. you're working to build an international position athletic, a person, and the ukraine will. but if
a radius evanston said, oh, some of them just ways income. they some of them on the, again, on the torture. this is asians awful. that's why that's why, of course, every normal custom says is a freight, the about the security is that those person who wrote saying some things for to people. and jessica biggest size that so richard method this invasion in the russia, unfortunately them out. but in any case, we believe that sooner or later, i believe just assume this is the issue, was that...
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he grewup in evanston, illinois. >> john: yes, that is true. >> stephen: the accent is completely madep] [bleep] >> john: white team, red team! >> stephen: your favorite play in the game tonight. what was your favorite play in tonight's game? >> john: oh, my god! when that guy and he. >> stephen: oh! it was good. it was good. unbelievable. >> john: oh, play that back in slo-mo. >> stephen: you have and i'm very excited about this because i saw early clips of this because i'm special. you've got a new movie coming out this spring called "if," which you wrote, directed, produced. and you're in it. are you also the gaffer and the caterer? >> john: i tried. they wouldn't let me. i did, because imaginary friends, there's a lot of visual effects so we didn't have actual ifs onset. imaginary friends. so i would puppet the imaginary friends to the other actors. >> stephen: is that what this is? there's ryan reynolds in the background. you holding a puppet unicorn. >> john: that's a puppet unicorn, and that's my wife. emily blunt is the voice -- >> stephen: she is so versatile. >> john: i know,
he grewup in evanston, illinois. >> john: yes, that is true. >> stephen: the accent is completely madep] [bleep] >> john: white team, red team! >> stephen: your favorite play in the game tonight. what was your favorite play in tonight's game? >> john: oh, my god! when that guy and he. >> stephen: oh! it was good. it was good. unbelievable. >> john: oh, play that back in slo-mo. >> stephen: you have and i'm very excited about this because i saw...
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so the fact that we see states like california and new york, cities like evanston and asheville, northen, doing this work of at least talking about it, studying it, means that we are in a very, very good place to see it perhaps in our lifetimes. which is amazing. >> yeah, and i'm glad you called out california. i've actually closely followed what happened in manhattan beach, particularly. that family that has been given a bunch of money, and some property, which they can turn around and sell and make the money they want to. but it was money and property that was stolen from them over 100 years ago. it is extraordinary that manhattan beach has taken, that a relatively small community in california has taken that step. let me ask you about your book, i want you to walk us through it. because, it does a lot more, marcus, then just examine reparations right now. this book begins with a young west african boy being sold into slavery, who is on a ship, quote, unsure of how long he had been in the dark -- as he was in an endless loop of confusion, pain, death, suffering, tears, and unanswered
so the fact that we see states like california and new york, cities like evanston and asheville, northen, doing this work of at least talking about it, studying it, means that we are in a very, very good place to see it perhaps in our lifetimes. which is amazing. >> yeah, and i'm glad you called out california. i've actually closely followed what happened in manhattan beach, particularly. that family that has been given a bunch of money, and some property, which they can turn around and...
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we're talking about places like evanston and, you know, the state of california. so this is all happening here. and you i never thought i would see it. and the question you're asking is, you know, how do we make them do more? i think part of that what what you guys have done is descendants, which was when my first story ran only the georgetown memory project. richard chile needs independent nonprofit had identified a handful of descendants you you know there are now known least 6000 descendants and and when people found out this history and you can imagine kind of what it might be like to find out this kind history that your ancestors were sold to save this institution. people, i like to say people wept, raged, and then they organized. and i think that organization and that pressure has know had an impact. let me ask this, though, because we've we've had two questions now about thank you for about, you know, history, the teaching of history and what role that history should play in our current moment. you know, your arrives at a moment of intense backlash about th
we're talking about places like evanston and, you know, the state of california. so this is all happening here. and you i never thought i would see it. and the question you're asking is, you know, how do we make them do more? i think part of that what what you guys have done is descendants, which was when my first story ran only the georgetown memory project. richard chile needs independent nonprofit had identified a handful of descendants you you know there are now known least 6000 descendants...
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hoboken, new jersey, evanston, illinois, and now there are many more cities using safe streets for allrsue their vision zero plan including minneapolis, fayetteville, arkansas, spokane, salinas, california, thank you. salina's. hundreds and hundreds of committees benefiting from this if you're not part of it i hope you will consider it. while we are at it i would shoot you know were working to make sure our safety mission benefits people in every mode of transportation. i have to remark as we near the one year anniversary of the norfolk southern derailment and eased a policy and i'm proud of the work the dot team has done to use the full range of our authority to improve nation rail safety nationwide. including holding where was accountable supporting first responders, protecting rail workers. there is a bipartisan railway safety act sitting in congress waiting its turn right now. let's not allow america to get to the one-year mark and not have that railway safety act become law. i think your voices need to be heard in this period because it mayors and your emergency services departmen
hoboken, new jersey, evanston, illinois, and now there are many more cities using safe streets for allrsue their vision zero plan including minneapolis, fayetteville, arkansas, spokane, salinas, california, thank you. salina's. hundreds and hundreds of committees benefiting from this if you're not part of it i hope you will consider it. while we are at it i would shoot you know were working to make sure our safety mission benefits people in every mode of transportation. i have to remark as we...