The colorful stories of Irish-American immigrants and their descendants who lived the history and exemplify the repeated cycle of the outsider becoming the ultimate Chicago citizen-insider.

As Comiskey Park, Chicago's 80 year old ballpark, prepares for its final season in 1990, expectation...

Born into poverty in Panama, Cirilo McSween’s journey is one of defiance, resilience, and triumph ov...

January, 1947. The public receives the news of Al Capone's death with indifference, although twenty ...

Documentary about Ben Wilson, a good-natured and beloved teenage basketball phenom from Chicago's So...

1960s Chicago, a baby is kidnapped from a hospital. Fifteen months later, a toddler is abandoned. Co...

The rock-wild youth of the 1960s during the apparitions of their idols.

The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is a two-hour live American television special that was broadcast ...

A feature-length documentary on the 1990s Chicago rock scene.

What Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun," the 2-disc DVD/CD focuses on th...

A never before seen look at the meteoric rise of Derrick Rose, the young Chicago superstar that was ...

Meet Duewand Collier Jr.-Male, 68 years old, American Citizen, a child conceived in the backdrop of ...

A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.

Chicago 1969: Activists from the Black Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots united African Amer...

Through never-been-seen-before footage and fascinating interviews with key members of the 1985 Chica...

On Chicago's South and West sides, the scourge of guns and gangs is destroying countless lives. Taki...

“17 Seconds” provides an all-access pass inside the Blackhawks locker room party in Boston and the a...

In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

Created from public television's popular Over series, this is a tour unlike any other! Fly above lan...

A portrait of the diverse opinions of Chicagoans as they reflect on the general state of affairs in ...