Studs Terkel’s Chicago

Duration: 900 ft.

Year Published: 1980

Creator: John McGreevy Productions

Complete Record: Noted author and philosopher takes us on a tour of his home city of Chicago train... movie morgue... steel mills... rail yard... downtown... “negro” (African-American) parade... blind black blues piano player & singer, “Blind” John Davis... quick shot of all-night diner with Terkel reflected in glass of the Ed Hopper painting “Nighthawks at the Diner”... outdoor parks... rummage sale... aerial of Chicago... middle class neighborhood... Hispanic murals, mariachis... baseball game... fireworks... weird & wild store clock... selling newspapers at stand... people on their way to work.