• When Chicago was Hollywood: The dawn of the film industry

  • Mar 1 2025
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When Chicago was Hollywood: The dawn of the film industry

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  • WGN Radio’s Dave Plier shares his interview with author and historian Adam Selzer to talk about the fascinating yet little-known story of how Chicago served as the unlikely capital of American film production in the years before the rise of Hollywood (1907–1913), the rise and fall of the major Chicago movie studios in the mid-silent […]
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