"Chicago"
Southwest Suburbs: Birthplace of Chicago
It's a part of Chicago that's full of surprises. It's home to a 28-square-mile forest with a rock canyon. It's where one of the Blues Brothers did time (along with thousands of other real-life convicts). And it's the setting for Chicago's most famous ghost story. It's home to major league soccer and minor league baseball. Chicago's largest Arab and..
The Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History
You are what you eat goes the old saying. So what can we learn about Chicagoans from the food on our plates? WTTW 11's Geoffrey Baer plays both taste-tester and tour guide, exploring the little-known stories behind Chicago's favorite foods.
When Chicago Was Hollywood
A documentary about the once-booming Chicago film industry, prior to the 1920s.
Dead & Company: 2017.06.30 - Wrigley Field - Chicago, IL
Set I: The Music Never Stopped, Bertha, Me and My Uncle, Sugaree, Let It Grow > Uncle John's Band Set II: Shakedown Street > Dark Star > St. Stephen > China Doll > Lady with a Fan > Terrapin > Uncle John's Band (reprise) > Drums > Space > Standing on the Moon > Help on the Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower Encore: Ripple, U.S. Blues
Chicago Steam Celebration
Big steam power, vintage diesels, classic interurbans, and Chicago's finest commuter railroads ... featuring the 1993 National Railway Historical Society's 1993 convention in the Windy City.
Chicago Traction Combo
Documents electric railroad operations in the Chicagoland area from 1900 to 1990.
Today's Chicago Railroads
The country's railroading capital, with a network of rail lines unlike anywhere else in the nation. The Fallen Flags of today - Burlington Northern; Chicago & North Western; Chicago Central; Conrail; Grand Trunk Western; Illinois Central; Santa Fe; Soo Line; and Wisconsin Central - were then still independent, operating entities. Other railroads pl..
Jean Genet in Chicago
A queer rewriting of the events surrounding the 1968 National Democratic Convention from the point of view of the controversial French writer. This “thief-video” combines disparate textual sources, contemporary reenactments of historical events and archival footage in order to relate the uneasy fusion of the French poet’s criminalized sexuali..
Charli XCX Live in Chicago
Charli XCX live set from Pitchfork Music Festival 2019
Chicago: America's Hidden War
Chicago America’s Hidden War pulls back the curtain to expose the pervasive genocidal-like behavior, explain what birthed and contributed to this war and why so little is done to stop it, and ultimately inspires a clear path toward change. It’s time for us all to unite and take a stand, because this is no longer America’s Hidden War. This is ..
A Love Letter To The Ancestors From Chicago
This Afrofuturist short film demonstrates that rhythm and dance bridge all times and spaces. Winner of Best Experimental Film at Collect Voices Ethnographic Film Fest, this film screened at Afropunk, Black Harvest Film Fest, and internationally.
Gangs of Chicago
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
Reggie Yates: Life and Death in Chicago
Against the backdrop of unprecedented gun violence, Reggie Yates travels to Chicago to investigate gun crime in President Obama's adopted hometown.
NFL Films - Chicago Bears - The Complete History
This two-disc set celebrates the rich history of the Chicago Bears, from the inception to today. Bonus program is the NFL Films production of Super Bowl XX, Bears big win over the Patriots, featuring the impenetrable 1985 Bears Defense and the colorful Jim McMahon. Includes tons of bonus features on the greatest Bears moments, games and players.
The Chicago Maternity Center Story
For more than seventy-five years, the Chicago Maternity Center provided safe home deliveries for Chicago mothers. This film interweaves the history of the center with the stories of a young woman about to have her first baby and the center's fight to stay open in the face of the corporate takeover of medicine.
Chicago Boys
The economists behind the implementation of the most extreme capitalist system in the world observe with surprise the discontent of its countrymen. For the first time, they tell the story of how they became Milton Friedman's students in Chicago in the 1950s and what were they willing to do to pursue their extreme economic ideas, aided by Pinochet's..
North Shore Line: Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad
A history of the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad.
Chicago & North Western Mainline West
This film covers more than 500 miles of the C&NW mainline west from Chicago to Omaha and Fremont, Nebraska. There is a wide variety of freight locomotives, ranging from the 1950 GP7s to new diesels built in the 1990's. In addition to the freight of the mainline you will enjoy plenty of Chicago Metra passenger trains on the Northwestern, and even ri..
Chicago Odyssey: Volume 1
Where else in the U.S. can one find so much railroad action but in Chicago...especially in the 1950's and 60's! World respected rail photographer Emery Gulash began capturing prolific amounts of action in and near the Chicago area from the early 50's. In the mid-fifties, to be a railfan in Chicago, there was no limit to the majestic views of rail..
