For many people, the American Dream has included owning a house. This month on Hidden Kansas, Beccy Tanner takes us to Great Bend, a place where futuristic, all-metal houses were part of that dream.

But it's not the first time steel houses were a thing in Central Illinois. - Let's crank up that time machine and go back decades and decades ago, when those steel houses started popping up all ...

The homes are being built with a $350,000 machine, known as Knudson, that bends, folds, and cuts steel sheets to various shapes and sizes to create parts for homes. The rolls of steel sheets cost ...