[John Stroger campaign commercial with Richard M. Daley]
John Stroger re-election campaign ad for Cook County Board President featuring Mayor Richard M. Daley.
John Stroger re-election campaign ad for Cook County Board President featuring Mayor Richard M. Daley.
News report on Dan Rostenkowski’s unusual re-election campaign of 1994, after making his first campaign appearance in Evanston 13 days before the election.
News report on the fact that, despite major objections and not endorsing him in the primary, the Chicago Sun-Times chose to endorse incumbent Democrat Dan Rostenkowski over challenger Michael Flanagan in the race for Rostenkowski’s long-held House seat.
At a rally at Daley Plaza celebrating the Chicago visit by Polish Solidarity leader and President Lech Walesa, Mayor Richard M. Daley welcomes Lech Walesa to the city of Chicago and presents him with a key to the city. Daley is introduced by Chicago Federation of Labor President Bob Healy.
At a rally at Daley Plaza celebrating the Chicago visit by Polish Solidarity leader and President Lech Walesa, Congressman Dan Rostenkowski welcomes Lech Walesa to the city of Chicago. Rostenkowski is introduced by Governor Jim Thompson.
This week, we’re continuing our series of videos that celebrate Media Burn’s upcoming ten year anniversary with another peek at the hard working people who make Media Burn possible. Video Cataloger/Digitizer Andrew Seeder reflects on his 18 month-long experience watching hundreds of hours of videos: “It was the everyday life of the community that came across during those hours, and that’s exactly the kind of thing we’re going to be most interested in 50 years, 60 years, 100 years from […]
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. “Hustlin’ Scrap.” Joe Cummings goes to a scrap metal yard to interview the men who roam Chicago’s alleys collecting scraps to return for cash. After leaving the lot, Cummings drives around River North and Downtown and talks about life in Chicago.
CHA residents accuse the Harold Washington administration of requiring them to register voters in order to receive city employment.