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  Musical Memories from Chicago 1963 to 2000

  Chicago, Performance, Tom Palazzolo

  A collection of excerpts from films by Tom Palazzolo focuing on music in Chicago, from street performers on Maxwell St to folk and rock bands at neighborhood festivals.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: Pratt family]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the city of Chicago. This tape documents the Pratt family at home. The children do a load of dishes in the kitchen, then read a story and play with the magnets in the kitchen. Mark Pratt folds clothes. The children play with their younger sister Myanna. One of the children does some homework.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: buildings footage – redevelopment plans]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the City of Chicago. This video features shots of newly-constructed town homes on Mohawk Avenue, poster board presentations from several private redevelopment contractors, and b-roll video shot in the Cabrini community on the Sedwick buildings parking lot and in front of the Cabrini row houses on Hudson Avenue.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: demolition of Robbins’s Barbershop]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the City of Chicago. This video records interviews and conversation inside George Robbins’s barbershop at 456 W. Division Street. The final twenty minutes of the tape records the demolition of George Robbins’s barbershop.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: b-roll of Cabrini and barbershop]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the City of Chicago. This video has b-roll of Cabrini Green and George Robbins preparing for the demolition of his barbershop at 456 W. Division Street. He removes posters from the shop’s walls.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw #0211]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the City of Chicago. This video records interviews and conversation inside George Robbins’s barbershop at 456 W. Division Street. The tape also features a sobering monologue about gang violence.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw: last day at Robbins’s Barbershop]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, Harold Washington, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  Footage for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Shot between 1995-1999, it documented the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried out by the City of Chicago. This video features the last business day inside George Robbins’s barbershop on 456 W. Division Street.

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  [Voices of Cabrini raw #203]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, GDDF, NHPRC-2, Voices of Cabrini

  This tape features footage gathered for the documentary “Voices of Cabrini.” Filmed between 1995-1999, the footage documents the Cabrini Green redevelopment project proposed and carried through by the city of Chicago. This video features interviews with urban planners Yittayih Zelalem and Patricia A. Wright, and an interview with the chair of the Coalition to Protect Public Housing, Wardell Yotaghan.