Chicago Slices, episode 9316
Episode 9316 of the show featuring everyday Chicagoans.
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Joann: My Sister The Mail Carrier
A brief portrait of Joann Elam who delivers the mail in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. She talks about being a woman in a traditionally male job. She comments on responses from job supervisors and how she derives personal benefit from this kind of employment. Produced for the Chicago Video Makers’ Coalition program, SLICES OF CHICAGO, a show for broadcast consisting of small format “alternative” videos on subjects not normally seen on broadcast television.
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The Legacy of Chernobyl
“I can see war. I cannot see radiation. I look around one day and I am dead.” —Dick Gregory, 1979 Illinois is a state of nuclear renown. The first ever atomic chain reaction took place at the University of Chicago in 1942. In 1960 the nation’s first full-scale, privately financed nuclear power plant, Dresden Generating Station, opened in northern Illinois. Today, Illinois continues to be the number one nuclear power producer in the U.S. and a nexus of the debate around […]
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![[Chicago Slices raw : Ben Hollis at State of Illinois building]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/653929153_640-228x160.jpg)
[Chicago Slices raw : Ben Hollis at State of Illinois building]
Raw footage shot for the TV series Chicago Slices. In this tape, host Ben Hollis interviews people at the State of Illinois building (now called the James R. Thompson Center).
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![[Chicago Slices raw : Ben Joravsky interviews Candace Howell]](https://development-q5nzhaa-ou7jifsrmm4uk.us.platform.sh/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/650748250_640-228x160.jpg)
[Chicago Slices raw : Ben Joravsky interviews Candace Howell]
Raw footage for the TV program Chicago Slices. In this video, journalist Ben Joravsky interviews Candace Howell at her building in Edgewater, a followup to his 1992 feature on Howell’s success reducing crime in her building.