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A listener asks why Main Street isn't Cincinnati's, well, main street.

Our feature OKI Wanna Know received a number of questions related to mailing addresses and decided to wrap them up into one episode and tie it with a bow.

The COVID pandemic is just over two years old now, and has drawn a lot of comparisons to a disease that swept the world early in the 20th century. Cincinnati was not spared then either. WVXU's Bill Rinehart continues a look at comparisons between COVID and the 1918 influenza pandemic.

4:52 Eileen Crowe of Finneytown was a University of Cincinnati student about 10 years ago. At the time, she noticed how Vine Street becomes Jefferson Avenue before switching back to Vine. "You kind of expect Vine Street to continue where theres Jefferson, but its offset," she says.  Vine Street used to be unbroken, according to former Cincinnati councilman and local historical Jim Tarbell. He points out Vine started at the Ohio River and ran north, up the hill, to Cincinnatis other neighborhoo...