A documentary about police brutality in Chicago, focusing on the policy of torture and abuse under Commander Jon Burge and the long and difficult fight to hold him and the Chicago Police Department accountable for their decades of violence towards the city’s Black and Latino populations.
A documentary about the efforts of staff and of community activists to keep Cook County Hospital from being shut down. Cook County Hospital workers rally on October 13, 1979 at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago.
The tenants at 5117 N. Kenmore describe the appalling living conditions of their apartments. A new edit of footage shot in Chicago in 1979.
A brief documentary about the movement for affordable housing in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood and nearby. A new edit of footage shot in Chicago in the 1970s.
An overview of activism undertaken by residents of Chicago’s Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods to protest a 19% rate hike from Com-Ed in 1980. A new edit of footage shot in 1980.
Quentin Young, a notable Chicago physician and activist, visits various Chicago sites important to his personal history of political activism, providing the context for each site as he does so. Throughout the course of the video, Young visits Valois Restaurant in Hyde Park, the site of the 1937 Memorial Day massacre, Bughouse Square, 1515 S Hamlin, the John Alexander Logan Monument, Federal Plaza, Cook County Hospital, Michael Reese Medical Center, and Daley Plaza.
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A meeting of residents and tenants rights organization in Uptown and surrounding neighborhoods with representatives of the Chicago Housing Authority that erupts into chaos.
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A meeting of residents and tenants rights organization in Uptown and surrounding neighborhoods with representatives of the Chicago Housing Authority.