Media Summary: Once upon a time in suburban Chicago, there was a fairly ordinary suburb, with an ordinary high school, with an ordinary janitor. The InterContinental Chicago Hotel was once home to a secret society. Who were they? And why was the Michgian Avenue icon ... Catchy jingles. Pithy slogans. They help tell stories and sell products. But advertising wasn't always colorful or memorable.

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Once upon a time in suburban Chicago, there was a fairly ordinary suburb, with an ordinary high school, with an ordinary janitor. The InterContinental Chicago Hotel was once home to a secret society. Who were they? And why was the Michgian Avenue icon ... Catchy jingles. Pithy slogans. They help tell stories and sell products. But advertising wasn't always colorful or memorable. During World War II, the U.S. captured hundreds of thousands of German Soldiers. What to do with them all? House them in the ... The Chicago Film Archive is on a mission to preserve. Archiving film footage shot in Chicago and all over the Midwest, preserving ... Lee Lasseigne, Stephen Westlake, and Michael Zafran. These three Chicago area men are on a mission to give long-deceased ...

The Grexa sisters were raised on Summerdale Avenue in unincorporated Norwood Park Township, next to notorious serial killer ... In 1974, Dan Walker is shot and killed on a desert highway in the Mojave Desert. After nearly four decades, a break in the case ... Malls started out as a sort of town center 2.0, eventually becoming staples of suburban life. But with the rise of online shopping, ... One of the most famous and beloved films in From the WGN Archives, we take you back to June 1986, when a tip from an Indiana farmer led authorities to discover the bodies ... NEW SHOW TO PREMIERE ON WGN. In his new show

Where and how did the game of golf get its start? And how pivotal was Chicago in the game's rise in popularity? Ray Bradbury is perhaps the bridge between the early visionaries of science fiction and our current catalogue of Marvel and Star ...

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