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Catholic Chicago - School

Featuring interviews with Chicagoans, this video explores the experience of growing up Catholic, with a focus on memories of Chicago Catholic schools.

How it's Made

The 2007 exhibition Mapping Chicago: The Past and the Possible looked at Replogle Globes, Inc., which has been turning maps into globes in Chicago for over 77 years. Replogle is the world's largest globe manufacturer. Watch to discover how globes are made.

Lowrider

The Chicago History Museum lobby features a 1978 Chevy Monte Carlo lowrider created by the Amistad Car Club of Cicero, Illinois. The Museum commissioned this video about the creation of this lowrider and lowriding culture in Chicago and the United States.

Encyclopedia of Chicago Video Gallery: Chicago on Screen

This video gallery offers fascinating views of late-19th and 20th-century life in Chicago through rarely seen historic footage.

Three short films from 1897, depicting the bustling activity of downtown and the Union Stock Yard, were made to promote rail travel. Two other pieces highlight Chicago's technical achievements, from an electric sign on Michigan Avenue to the displays at the 1933-34 Century of Progress Exhibition. Several films illustrate the relationship between politics and emerging communications technology in the mid-20th century, while others offer entertaining snippets of film and television from Chicago's past.

> The Celebrity of Technology
> The Celebrity of Politics
> The Celebrity of Entertainment

Broadcast Interviews of Chicago History Museum President Gary T. Johnson

> Interview at the Pritzker Military Library
> Interview on the Mark Johnson Show