Men and women stand and move around on a platform in Chicago. Gangster Al Capone along with officials arrives at the station and is seated in a train car. He tries to hide his face from the photographers present at the station.Several friends and family wave sorrowfully as he boards the train.
The prisoners set Joliet Penitentiary to fire causing damage of $1,000,000 at Illinois. The troops charged 1000 rebellion who set fire during the revolt. Ring leader marching to solitary with hands rose. 23 March 1931.
Machines seen inside a flour mill. Workers download flour gunny bags from a table. Workers moving flour gunny bags loaded on a hand cart on a railway platform.
George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser at the presentation of U.S. census around 1960. A slide of U.S. map appears on the screen. 1820 and population figures are marked on part of the map inhabited at that time. The reasons for the increase in the population are discussed by George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser. In the next slide census figures of 1830 appears. Concern for the handicapped lead to including of deaf, dumb and blind category in this census is shown. Dr Philip Hauser shows cartoons appearing in newspapers of that time to George Stone. In the next slide, census figures of 1850 and 7 classes of occupation of people are seen. A percentage representation of various occupations in the population is given in the next slide. The stress on accuracy of 1850 census is seen in the next slide. A comparison of number of occupations of males and females from 1840 to 1870 is shown in the next slide. Census of 1930 is mentioned in the next slide. 1931 is shown as a Special Unemployment Census. Newspaper headlines about stock market crash is seen. Around clip timecode 8:13 are images of Wall Street New York Stock Exchange floor near time of stock market crash. Wall Street region in New York City filled with people and views of lines or queues for homeless, unemployed, or food during the Great Depression.
Film about the state of Illinois in the United States. People enter a building for the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Illinois. People in the fair. Amusement rides, swings and people in a bus. Farmers walk with cattle. Children participate in 4-H club livestock competitions. A farmer near his blue ribbon winning cow. A girl near her sheep who won a blue ribbon. Children on a miniature train. Harness racing at a horse racing track in Illinois. Sports cars driven during an automobile race on a dirt track. Interior view of upper deck in double decker passenger train car with passengers enjoying the view through windows and a conductor punching tickets; Abraham Lincoln birth home cabin; View of statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The SS City of Grand Rapids ferry ship of the Cleveland & Buffalo Steamship Company passing by on Lake Michigan with Wrigley Building in background.
Miner trapped under a collapsed coal bed in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Miners digging with shovels in a collapsed coal bed in Chicago to rescue a fellow miner Barney Bozant. Coal miners dig and reach the man who is trapped under ten-foot layer of earth. The crowd gather around to watch. The miners take Barney Bozant out from the coal bed.
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