14K views · 46 reactions | Pieces of Cold War history, hidden in plain site all around Chicago. Larry Potash has the backstory of one man's efforts to preserve a Nike missile site. For more check out the Backstory podcast. Just search "Backstory with Larry Potash" wherever you get your podcasts or at WGNtv.com/backstory | WGN TV | Facebook

116K views · 1.1K reactions | The first-ever self-sustaining nuclear reaction, took place at the University of Chicago in 1942 as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project. So how did the radioactive material end up at a Cook County forest preserve? Geoffrey Baer went in search of the answer. #ChicagoMysteriesWTTW to.wttw.com/4d5K4WN | WTTW - Chicago PBS | Facebook

2.4K views · 133 reactions | WATCH  The world’s first self-sustaining, controlled nuclear chain reaction at Chicago Pile-1 explained brick by brick. : Argonne National Laboratory | U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy | Facebook

Eighty years ago today, Enrico Fermi and his colleagues conducted a physics experiment that changed the world. Chicago Pile 1 led to the first nuclear chain reaction and the world of carbon-free nuclear energy. | Argonne National Laboratory