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1972NORTH AMERICA
STILLS, RECREATION, CHICAGO
00:00:08 Low angle of new skyscraper construction
00:00:42 High Angle of Chicago buildings
00:00:44 Sign "Site of Fort Dearborn"
00:00:52 Low angle shot of Chicago buildings
00:00:59 Stills
00:05:00 Animation map of railways railroads in and around Chicago
00:05:14 Still of Chicago and Chicago Fire
00:08:50 Animation map of Chicago growth
00:09:07 Stills of Chicago
00:11:15 Animation map of Chicago growth
00:11:30 Stills of Chicago
00:12:17 More Animation map of Chicago's continuing growth
00:12:36 Stills of chicago
00:12:36 Aerial footage of Chicago circa 1972
00:12:56 Aerial Chicago highways, industrial parks, Chicago Union stock yards
00:13:53 Professor Brian Barry interviewed about Chicago.
00:13:58 Gates of Chicago Union Stock yards
00:14:05 Interview
00:14:16 views of the stock yards, railway lines
00:14:37 Interview
00:16:38 Cattle auction with auctioneer (natural sound) and bidding.
00:17:06 Interview
00:21:04 Tractor trailer truck drives over railroad track. Various tractor trailer trucks
00:21:39 Interview
00:21:42 Flowers and abandoned train track
00:21:48 Urban renewal making roads
00:21:58 Interview
00:22:06 Aerial Chicago circa 1972
00:22:24 Interview
00:23:27 billboard for Entrance to the Morgan Industrial Development
00:23:42 Interview
00:23:50 pan of new buildings in the once abandoned Stock Yards
00:23:59 Interview
00:24:40 Abandoned gate of the Chicago Union Stock Yards

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COUNTDOWN
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VERTICAL PAN UP AT NEW SKYSCRAPER, TITLE CARD: GROWTH AND CHANGE
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HIGH ANGLE SHOT DOWN AND SKYSCRAPERS, CHICAGO WITH CREDITS SUPERIMPOSED
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PLAQUE EMBEDDED IN SIDEWALK, "SITE OF FORT DEARBORN"
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LOW ANGLE CIRCULAR SHOT OF CHICAGO BUILDINGS
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ILLUSTRATION OF FORT DEARBORN
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EARLY MAP OF CHICAGO, 1830
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ILLUSTRATION OF CHICAGO STREETS AND BUILDINGS IN 1830S
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EARLY MAP OF DEVELOPMENT LOTS IN CHICAGO
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ILLUSTRATION OF 19 CENTURY WOMEN MEETING ON THE STREET
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OLD CHICAGO BUILDING, WOOD CLAPBOARD
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ILLUSTRATION OF CANAL TO MISSISSIPPI FROM CHICAGO
00:02:32 147.37 thumbnail
ILLUSTRATION OF THE RAIL YARDS IN CHICAGO, STEAM LOCOMOTIVE
00:02:36 151.6 thumbnail
OLD PHOTOGRAPH OF FIRST CHICAGO TRAIN STATION
00:02:51 166.44 thumbnail
ILLUSTRATION OF CHICAGO, SHIPS AND SMOKESTACKS, CIRCA 1850S
00:03:03 178.63 thumbnail
ILLUSTRATION OF CHICAGO FROM ABOVE, BIRDSEYE VIEW
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VINTAGE PHOTO OF SHIPS AND BRIDGES IN CHICAGO
00:03:20 195.78 thumbnail
VINTAGE PHOTO OF WHARF WITH TIMBER AND SHIPS, CHICAGO
00:03:27 202.73 thumbnail
VINTAGE PHOTOS OF DOWNTOWN CHICAGO, HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGES
00:03:46 221.17 thumbnail
VINTAGE PHOTO OF THE TRAIN STATION FOR THE MICHIGAN SOUTHERN AND NORTH INDIANA TRAINS
00:03:59 234.57 thumbnail
VINTAGE PHOTO OF WOODEN SHACKS AND STONE BUILDINGS IN CHICAGO, RAPID GROWTH
00:04:14 249.55 thumbnail
ILLUSTRATION OF CATTLE FARM, UNION STOCKYARDS
00:04:33 268 thumbnail
OLD PANORAMA PHOTO OF CHICAGO, 1858
00:04:57 292.22 thumbnail
ANIMATED MAP OF RAILROADS IN CHICAGO AREA
00:05:14 309.49 thumbnail
PHOTO OF HORSE DRAWN TROLLEYS ON CHICAGO STREETS
00:05:31 326.75 thumbnail
RAILWAY STATION NORTH OF CHICAGO
00:05:49 344.34 thumbnail
PHOTO OF CHICAGO FIRE AFTERMATH OF 1871
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STONE BUILDINGS IN RUIN AFTER FIRE OF 1871, CHICAGO
00:06:14 369.73 thumbnail
OLD PHOTO FROM 1873, SHOWING THE REBUILT BUILDINGS
00:06:22 377.29 thumbnail
VINTAGE PHOTO OF WHARFS AND SHIPS, CHICAGO
00:06:26 381.96 thumbnail
CHICAGO STOCKYARDS, VINTAGE PHOTO
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CROWDED CHICAGO STREETS, VINTAGE PHOTO, HORSE DRAWN WAGONS
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EARLY SKYSCRAPERS, MONADNOCK BUILDING, BUILT 1891
00:07:11 426.79 thumbnail
OVERHEAD SHOT OF CHICAGO STREETS,CABLE CARS, CIRCA 1894
00:07:31 446.08 thumbnail
OLD PHOTO OF WOODEN HOUSE WITH MEN SITTING ON STAIR RAILS, 19 CENTURY TOUGHS
00:07:39 454.9 thumbnail
VINTAGE PHOTO OF OVERHEAD VIEW OF ELEVATED TRAINS, CHICAGO
00:07:52 467.11 thumbnail
VINTAGE PHOTO OF VERY CONGESTED STREETS OF CHICAGO, CIRCA 1910
00:08:09 484.59 thumbnail
SHIPS AND WHARF, VINTAGE PHOTO
00:08:26 501.18 thumbnail
ILLUSTRATION OF CALUMET, LAKESIDE
00:08:42 517.17 thumbnail
CALUMET CITY AERIAL SHOT, VINTAGE PHOTO
00:08:50 525.85 thumbnail
ANIMATED MAP OF CHICAGO SHOWING GROWTH
00:09:07 542.23 thumbnail
VINTAGE PHOTO OF WEALTHY CHICAGO HOME, NORTH END
00:09:18 553.36 thumbnail
PHOTO OF WORKERS HOMES, CROWDED TOGETHER
00:09:30 565.15 thumbnail
PHOTOS OF CHICAGO STREETS, IMMIGRANTS, EARLY 20 CENTURY, VENDORS, ETHNIC IDENTITY
00:09:46 581.6 thumbnail
BLACK SLUMS OF CHICAGO, SOUTHSIDE, EARLY 20 CENTURY
00:09:55 590.56 thumbnail
AERIAL STILL OF CHICAGO, EARLY 20 CENTURY
00:10:04 599.56 thumbnail
GRANT PARK AERIAL SHOT, PHOTO
00:10:15 610.48 thumbnail
HIGH ANGLE PHOTOS OF CHICAGO STREETS AND SKYSCRAPERS, EARLY 20 CENTURY
00:10:39 634.26 thumbnail
WORKERS SHACKS IN CHICAGO, CIRCA 1920S
00:10:58 653.88 thumbnail
VINTAGE PHOTO OF FARM AROUND CHICAGO WITH GRID ROADS LAID THROUGH
00:11:15 670.93 thumbnail
ANIMATED MAP OF CHICAGO, SHOWING GROWTH
00:11:30 685.05 thumbnail
PHOTOS SHOWING URBAN RENEWAL PROJECTS IN CHICAGO, BEFORE AND AFTER, PRAIRIE SHORES, 1950S
00:11:57 712.51 thumbnail
PHOTOS OF OFFICE BUILDINGS AND OLDER MANSIONS IN CHICAGO CIRCA 1950S
00:12:18 733.29 thumbnail
ANIMATED MAP OF CHICAGO SHOWING GROWTH
00:12:36 751.22 thumbnail
AERIAL PHOTO OF SUBURBAN SPRAWL, NEW DEVELOPMENTS OUTSIDE CHICAGO, CIRCA 1960S
00:12:42 757.32 thumbnail
AERIAL SHOT OF CHICAGO
00:12:56 771 thumbnail
AERIAL SHOT OF CHICAGO HIGHWAYS
00:13:26 801.11 thumbnail
AERIAL SHOT OF INDUSTRIAL PARK IN CHICAGO
00:13:35 810.02 thumbnail
AERIAL SHOTS OF CHICAGO STOCKYARDS
00:13:53 828.9 thumbnail
INTERVIEW WITH PROFESSOR BRIAN BARRY IN THE OLD CHICAGO STOCKYARDS, ORIGINAL GATE, ABANDONED, RAILWAY LINES, PAN OF AREA, SMOKE STACKS
00:16:36 991.75 thumbnail
SHOTS OF CATTLE AUCTION, AUCTIONEER SPEAKING VERY FAST, MEN RAISE HANDS IN BIDDING, SUITS AND COWBOY HATS
00:17:06 1021.83 thumbnail
INTERVIEW IN THE CHICAGO STOCKYARDS CONTINUES, MENTIONS THE ARMOR AND SWIFT FAMILIES, MEAT PACKING INDUSTRY LEADERS, INDUSTRY ATTRACTED UNEDUCATED MIGRANTS FROM ALL OVER, WAVE AFTER WAVE, TALKS ABOUT THE ETHNIC AREAS THAT SETTLED AROUND THE STOCKYARDS, WHITE FLIGHT
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BRIAN BARRY IS ASKED ABOUT THE FACTORS THAT LEAD TO THE DECLINE OF THE STOCKYARDS, TRANSPORTATION AND REFRIGERATION TECHNOLOGY, REGIONALIZED PACKING OF MEAT
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TRACTOR TRAILER PASSES OVER TRAIN TRACKS AT THE OLD STOCKYARDS, CHICAGO, CIRCA 1972
00:21:13 1268.9 thumbnail
TRACTOR TRAILER YARD, REFRIGERATED TRUCKS
00:21:22 1277.26 thumbnail
CU PAN OF TRACTOR TRAILERS
00:21:38 1293.69 thumbnail
INTERVIEW CONTINUES
00:21:42 1297.64 thumbnail
BLACK EYED SUSAN GROWING NEAR ABANDONED TRAIN TRACKS
00:21:47 1302.28 thumbnail
BULLDOZERS BUILDING ROADS, RENEWAL, CONSTRUCTION AT THE OLD STOCKYARDS
00:21:57 1312.82 thumbnail
INTERVIEW CONTINUES
00:22:06 1321.35 thumbnail
AERIAL SHOT OF CHICAGO STOCKYARDS CIRCA 1972
00:22:24 1339.34 thumbnail
INTERVIEW WITH BRIAN BARRY CONTINUES, TALKS ABOUT BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD AND JOB CREATION, URBAN RENEWAL
00:23:27 1402.4 thumbnail
BILLBOARD FOR THE MORGAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, DIRECTORY OF INDUSTRIES
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INTERVIEW CONTINUES
00:23:50 1425.67 thumbnail
PAN OF NORTHERN EDGE OF THE OLD STOCKYARDS, NEW BUILDINGS FOR INDUSTRY
00:23:58 1433.65 thumbnail
INTERVIEW CONTINUES
00:24:40 1475.49 thumbnail
STONE ENTRANCE GATE TO THE CHICAGO STOCKYARDS, ABANDONED YARDS, CIRCA 1972, PAN TO TRAIN TRACKS AND POOLS OF MUD
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