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  [Chicago Slices raw: Bike Messenger]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, Politics

  Raw footage for Chicago Slices. Jack Blackfelt, a bike messenger, talks about the plight of the working man and the city’s “strong arming” of the messengers, and takes us on a tour to see him in action. He falls off bike in mid traffic.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Gospel Fest]

  Black, Chicago, Chicago Slices, Communities

  Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a series documenting life in and around Chicago. This video documents the 1993 Gospel Fest in Grant Park, featuring The Rutledge Sisters: 13 year-old Charlotte and 10 year-old Denise, a dynamic and powerful pair. This tape shows them on stage performing, as well as backstage for an interview along with their God sister Bridget Campbell.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Women’s Action Coalition]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, Outside Agitators, Skip Blumberg

  Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a television series about life in Chicagoland. This video focuses on the Women’s Action Coalition (WAC), an organization focused around women’s issues. Videomaker Skip Blumberg tapes a WAC gathering at Carpenter and Huron in the West Loop where participants with homemade instruments play in a drum circle, and also interviews many of them about their beliefs and their cause.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Female Impersonator]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, Communities, GDDF, LGBTQIA, NHPRC-2, Viewers Choice

  Female impersonator John “Jyneen” Simms. Simms leads a dual life as a construction worker and as a stripper. He is male, but has artificial breast implants and dresses up as a woman for private parties. “It started out as a joke about five years ago and now I spend more time with a dress on than pants. I do all private parties. I’m not gay, believe it or not. This is business and that’s how I attack it, strictly business and it’s not really a lifestyle. If I’m out working, I’m not really running around with a dress on. Although sometimes it’s easier…I could almost be a real life Tootsie, although I think I carried it a little further with the boob job…I’m a guy. The bottom plumbing works, but I make my living wearing a dress.”

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  [Chicago Slices raw : Stan Hollenbeck]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices

  This video contains raw footage for the television show “Chicago Slices.” In this video, Ben Jarovsky interviews Stan Hollenbeck, publicist for Joz’s LaunderBar, a combination laundromat and bar.