Fired-Up! “Public Housing is My Home”

An anti-littering public service announcement from the Chicago Park District

This documentary short profiles John Carruthers' Crust Fund Pizza project, which slings alley pizzas for the benefit of the people who make Chicago a...

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building...

A 1975 documentary short about a strike being conducted by public-housing residents in St. Louis.

Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst...

Stars, director and producers of Chicago (2002) are interviewed about the film with a decade of hindsight.

Amidst the ivy-draped remnants of once-notorious public housing projects, FOR THOSE THAT LIVED THERE weaves a visual tapestry, navigating the...

David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.

House music is a genre that connects, uplifts, and unites people. It resonates globally and is prevalent on the world’s biggest music stages....

In an age before online commerce and Amazon, the catalog was king – and two Chicago mail order giants were responsible for making goods and...

Chicago mayor Richard J. “Boss” Daley had a lofty vision for Chicago’s downtown. Over the course of his 21 years in office,...

Documenting the demolition of Cabrini Green, Chicago's most infamous public housing development, through the stories of three public housing...