“Let’s Get Working: Chicago Celebrates Studs Terkel” at U of C Tom Weinberg founder, Media Burn Archive independent producer Studs Terkel at Lawry’s Tavern, 1991 photo by Matthew Gilson One Sunday afternoon in 1975, a group of about eight young video experimenters finished editing a version of the first “It’s a Living” documentary, based on Studs Terkel’s best-selling book, “Working.” Studs came over to Videopolis on Clark Street (now the Metro), the space we had been working in, to see … Continue reading The story of Studs Terkel and Nelson Algren