Check out my first article!! Worked on this piece as a @city_bureau writing fellow covering migrant labor issues. Interviewed gogo boys in Chicago for months.. I’ll never be the same https://t.co/abLxd5t7Sr
Paris, 1982.
Before he became familiar to television audiences, a young J. Eddie Peck was photographed in Paris by Andy Warhol. Peck, then only about 23 or 24, was reportedly in the city with fellow model Nick Constantino for a fashion editorial being photographed by Christopher Makos, a close friend and collaborator of Warhol.
It was an especially interesting moment in Peck’s life. His acting career was still ahead of him, while Warhol was deep into his fascination with actors, models, musicians and fashion personalities.
Peck would go on to appear in Dallas, Dynasty, Days of Our Lives and All My Children.
A fascinating little glimpse of a career before it began.
Fun fact: onions 🧅 are the only agricultural commodity you can’t legally trade in the US futures market
And the reason traces back to Chicago
It’s the 1930s
An onion farmer named Vincent Kosuga and his friend started making bets on agricultural markets in their free time
Eventually, they realize: why not bet on the crop they knows best
Onions
By the 1950s, they started buying up onions and onion futures, eventually controlling an enormous share of the market
Then they’d flip the trade and take massive short positions to flood Chicago with millions of pounds of onions
Onion prices ended up collapsing
Congress had to get involved and in 1958, the Onion Futures Act was signed into law, banning futures trading in onions
Nearly 70 years later, the ban still exists