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Two mixes, one by Derrick Carter and the other by u-ziq, show how the city took overblown dance music, stripped it down, and made it party music… twice, over the course of three decades.

Chicago’s legendary Essanay Studios, a pioneer that employed Charlie Chaplin and discovered Gloria Swanson, was also responsible for one of film’s earliest cartoon characters, the work of a newspaper cartoon prodigy.