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Black and white footage capturing crowds of Chicago Bears fans celebrating the team's historic win in the city's downtown area (the Loop). The last...

Three separate Heidkamp home movies, from 1929, 1930, and 1936, each shot in Chicago.

Footage of a "kiss-in" demonstration for gay civil rights at the Picasso sculpture at Daley Plaza in 1974, followed by footage of people preparing ...

Footage of a large anti-war demonstration in 1966. People can be seen carrying signs; one person has even covered their dog in anti-war slogans. Th...

Scenes of Chicago summertime nightlife in three different parts of the city: downtown at Rush & Division streets, a concert at Grant Park's Petrill...

Super 8mm film depicting a pro-Equal Rights Amendment demonstration in Chicago's Grant Park on May 10, 1980.

Amateur film about a man (Robert Olssohn) who finds tokens for a telescope at the top of Chicago's Prudential Building. He mostly uses them to peep...

Unedited scenes from Mary and Joe Chicago Style, a retelling of the Nativity as re-imagined by Chicago's Central Cinematographers amateur ...

Loosely-constructed footage of the 1984 Chicago Kool Jazz Festival in Grant Park and the 25th Annual International Folk Fair.

A short film presented by the "Bert Ray Players" that centers around the antics of a group of employees in an advertising firm near Water Tower Pla...

An advertising firm employee receives a postcard in the mail that inspires him to daydream. In this daydream, which follows the cadence of a faux F...

"A neon wilderness of shoppers where mounting tensions added to frustrations, scurrying pedestrians, sadistic drivers, sex mad movie displays, hamb...

Black and white footage depicting the wintry streets of Chicago circa 1940, including both daytime and nighttime scenes, mostly in the downtown area.

Color footage of wintry downtown Chicago followed by rural scenes of two women by a lake.