This American Life is an excellent longstanding wkly radio show on NPR radio out of Chicago and hosted by Ira Glass. It does profiles of standout people and gives intimate portraits that look into the soul of America.

They now have TV episodes as well on Showtime based on the same idea. This video is about the Chicago hot dog stand and landmark The Weiner Circle . It starts off seeming like an amusing episode of Seinfeld with the chap who loses his crap when he sells his soup, but it goes south, and fast. It turned my stomach, and not because of the dogs. It says a lot about the hyper-segregation between North and South Chicago. Already covered by CitySPK from a South side perspective here .

Tags: american, Chicago, circle, glass, hyper, ira, life, north, segregation, south, this, weiner

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