Videocassettes of WTTW's Chicago Stories Series,

2002-2003

 

Descriptive Inventory for the Collection at the Chicago Historical Society

 

 

 

© Copyright 2004, Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614

 

 

Title:

Chicago Stories

Inclusive dates:

[ca. 2002-2003]

Main entry:

WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)

Accession no.:

2003.0077 V

Extent:

48 videocassettes (VHS) : sd., col., ;1/2 in.

Restriction:

Copyright retained by WTTW. Written permission of WTTW required for reproduction.

Summary: 

Documentary videos and interviews about Chicago history and social groups. John Callaway served as interviewer and narrrator. Topics include politicians, activists, laborers, athletes, people in arts and entertainment, philanthropists, Riverview, Union Stockyards, Midway Airport, Edgewater Beach Hotel, the Picasso, bungalows, architecture and preservation, lakefront, civil rights marches, Eastland disaster, Century of Progress, Mackinac Race, Studs Terkel, Marshall Field's Christmas windows, and groups, including Swedes, Jews, Mexicans, Lithuanians, Greeks, American Indians, African Americans.

Provenance:

Gift of WTTW (2003.0077).

Digital resource:

 

Online catalog headings:

Afro-Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Architecture -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.

Boxing -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Bungalows -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912

Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.)

Chicago Bears (Football team) -- History.

Chicago-Mackinac Island Race.

Christmas decorations

Coleman, Bessie, 1896-1926

Daley, Richard J., 1902-1976

Eastland disaster, Chicago, Ill., July 24, 1915.

Edgewater Beach Hotel (Chicago, Ill.)

Essanay Film Manufacturing Company (Chicago, Ill.)

Greek Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Greeley, Andrew M., 1928-

Harris, Arne

Holleb, Marshall M.

Indians of North America -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Lithuanian Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.

Marshall Field's (Department store)

Mexican Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Midway Airport

Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Riverview Park (Chicago, Ill.)

O'Hare, Edward Henry.

Page, Ruth.

Petrillo, James Caesar, 1892-1984.

Picasso, Pablo, 1881-1973

Prairie Avenue (Chicago, Ill.)

Pullman porters

Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932

Rostenkowski, Dan

Shay, Arthur

Swedish Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago.

Taylor, Koko.

Terkel, Studs, 1912-

Union Stock Yard & Transit Company of Chicago

Veeck, Bill, 1914-1986

WTTW (Television station : Chicago, Ill.)

Videos.

Callaway, John D.

Container list:

1. Chicago Stories: The Greeks in Chicago

2. Chicago Stories: Saul Alinski

3. Chicago Stories: Art Shay

4. Chicago Stories: Lois Weisberg

5. Chicago Stories: The Night RJD Bought NBC for JFK

6. Chicago Stories 101: James Petrillo

7. Chicago Stories 102: WPA Murals

8. Chicago Stories 103: Arne Harris

9. Chicago Stories 104: Dan Rostenkowski

10. Chicago Stories 105: Koko Taylor

11. Chicago Stories 107: Riverview

12. Chicago Stories 109: 1933 World’s Fair

13. Chicago Stories 110: The Race to Mackinac

14. Chicago Stories 112: Daniel Burnham

15. Chicago Stories 114: Ruth Page

16. Chicago Stories 115: Prairie Avenue

17. Chicago Stories 116: Field’s Christmas Windows

18. Chicago Stories 117: Studs Terkel

19. Chicago Stories 118. Our People

20. Chicago Stories 119: ’85 Bears

21. Chicago Stories 120: Pullman Porters

22. Chicago Stories 121: Marshall Holleb

23. Chicago Stories 123: The Swedes

24. Chicago Stories 124: Those Films

25. Chicago Stories 125: Stockyards

26. Chicago Stories 126: Bill Veeck

27. Chicago Stories 127: Jewish History in Chicago, 1833-1933: Romance of a People

28. Chicago Stories 128: Bessie Coleman

29. Chicago Stories 129: Top Guns of ‘43

30. Chicago Stories 130: Lost Chicago  

31. Chicago Stories 201: Golden Gloves

32. Chicago Stories 202: Julius Rosenwald

33. Chicago Stories 204: Edgewater Beach Hotel

34. Chicago Stories 205: Midway Airport

35. Chicago Stories 206: Chicago’s Bungalows

36. Chicago Stories 207: The Eastland Disaster

37. Chicago Stories 208: Pablo and the Boss

38. Chicago Stories 209: Civil Rights on the North Shore

39. Chicago Stories 210: The Staple Singers

40. Chicago Stories 211: Francis O’Neill

41. Chicago Stories 212: The Richard Nickel Story

42. Chicago Stories 213: Chicago’s Urban Indians

43. Chicago Stories 214: How Chicago Rocked the ‘60s

44. Chicago Stories 215: Father Andrew Greeley

45. Chicago Stories 216: Mary Mitchell

46. Chicago Stories 219: Mexican Church

47. Chicago Stories 220: The Lithuanians

48. Chicago Stories 221: Harlem Globetrotters