[WGN news compilation]
This is a compilation of news reports from WGN on a variety of topics, including local Chicago news as well as national news stories.
This is a compilation of news reports from WGN on a variety of topics, including local Chicago news as well as national news stories.
This series of three news reports concerns the controversy surrounding Mayor Jane Byrne’s idea to introduce casino gambling in Chicago, which focuses on the positive and negative consequences of introducing casino gambling in Atlantic City, NJ.
This is a short clip showing former Cubs player Bruce Sutter pitching a ball to a young boy.
This short news segment describes Bill Singer’s loss at the 1975 race to become mayor of Chicago, as well as his current campaign for the 1979 mayoral election.
Footage from Tom Palazzolo of a 4th of July festival in Chicago around the late 1980s/early 1990s.
Footage of the Chicago Folk and Roots Festival at Welles Park. Includes conversations with attendees and musicians, as well as the entire set of a band’s performance.
This video shows the efforts of the Organization of the Northeast (O.N.E.) to push local financial institutions into investing more of their money in the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago. It contains a series of segments from 1974, including a session with Gov. Dan Walker, a meeting with the Uptown National Bank, and three newsreels which show the backlash against some local banks, as well as the O.N.E.’s success in negotiating a pact with four of the banks in these neighborhoods.
Raw footage for “Where’s I.W. Abel?” Made by Kartemquin and a rank-and-file steel workers caucus, the film documents the opposition of the rank-and-file to the no-strike agreement between Steelworkers President I.W. Abel and the ten major steel companies, made without a vote by the membership of the union. Featuring Staughton Lynd.