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I shall have to email friends back in Chicago, to find out if those air raid sirens still go off every Tuesday at 10;30 in the morning....our house was right next to a factory, and that factory had air raid sirens...so when 10:30 on Tuesday came, we sure had a loud blast...

But I am not sure if they still do it or not...I left Chicago in 1978, and I am not sure if those sirens were still going off then or not...

I am going to have to find out about those sirens....

we had the emergency broadcastng thingy till I left nyc in '91
I think it was just on radio tho
I'd be listening to a show
and they would say ''we are interrupting this broadcast to test our emergency broadcasting thingy''
then there would be silence for a whole minute
then they would say ''if this had been an actual emergency you would have received instructions''
then the show continued

Well, I did a brief search on the internet, and could not find out whether those air raid sirens still go on every Tuesday morn at 10:30...I did however find an article, where a guy talks about growing up in Chicago during the 50s and mentions those weekly air raid sirens...

However he states that the air raid sirens were in the fire stations....I always thought they were in our factory next door, as they sounded so close, but then the fire station was only one block from our house, so I guess, the air raid sirens were in the fire house not the factory...

This article also mentions, that when he was a kid, the author of this piece, remembers thinking to himself, that clever Russians would actually bomb Chicago on a Tuesday morning at 10:30, because no one would actually think a bombing was going on at that time, because we were all so used to the regular weekly sirens...