A holiday-themed episode from 2020.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a familiar sight near the river at Clark Street was the Rouse Simmons, also known as The Christmas Tree Ship, and its captain Herman Schuenemann, who became known to families in Chicago as Captain Santa.

During a trip from upper Michigan to Chicago in November of 1912, all of that changed.

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