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North Chicago Illinois USA 1917 stock footage and images

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American sailors work unloading lumber and coal cars in the United States.

American sailors at work in the United States near grounds of U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes training facility (Naval Station Great Lakes) in World War I. A group of sailors walks along a street. Buildings along street sides. The sailors carry boxes and lumber boards. They unload coal cars with shovels from raiload cars labeled C&E (Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad). The sailors aboard a small vessel 'SP-1011' underway in water. The vessel is tied up at a dock. A sailor mends his cap. A propaganda slate urges American citizens to support the country and the President.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077369
Skyscrapers and Merchandise Mart buildings of Chicago, Illinois

Skyscrapers and cluster of buildings in Chicago, Illinois. Exterior views both elevated and street level of the giant Merchandise Mart building in Chicago's North side. View of the elevated train passing near the Merchandise Mart in the mid 1960s.

Date: 1965
Duration: 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036790
Chicago Illinois celebrates Cardinal Mundelein's Silver Jubilee.

The silver anniversary of Chicago's Archbishop George Mundelein is celebrated with an impressive jubilee in his honor in Illinois. Crowds of churchmen attend a parade. Civilians watch the parade on either side of road. Sacristans accompany priests and other Roman Catholic Church figures. George Cardinal Mundelein arrives at the Holy Name Cathedral (Holy Name Cathedral, 730 North Wabash Avenue, Chicago IL 60611).

Date: 1934, November 21
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028710
Politicians address as Hanneagan calls the Democratic National Convention into session at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago.

Democratic National Convention at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Illinois. Helen Gahagan (ex Broadway star, wife of film star Melvyn Douglas and herself a candidate for Congress from California) answers media persons. Photographers take photos. Mrs. Claude Pepper of Florida, Congress-woman Mary Norton of New Jersey, Senator Jackson of Indiana, Senator Scott Lucas, old warrior James Farley and others present. Chairman Robert Hanneagan calls the Democratic National Convention into session. Mrs. Charles Tillett of North Carolina addresses the convention. Helen Gahagan gives a speech. Oklahoma's Chief Executive Robert S. Kerr delivers an address.

Date: 1944, July 18
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071973
Various views of Old Town neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois.

Film opens with camera panning closeup over the exterior of St. Michael's Church, at 1633 North Cleveland Avenue, in Old Town, Chicago. Then, neighborhood views are seen from an open convertible car. Momentary glimpse, from above, of driver in the car. More neighborhood scenes and a pillar identifying Crilly Court. Views of various buildings in the neighborhood. A white standard poodle dog is seen looking out the open window of a car. A woman walks a black standard poodle dog along a commercial district sidewalk. Closeup of the poodle. Closeup glimpse of a woman and a man riding together on a motorcycle. A young man riding a motorcycle. Closeups of many people walking on the sidewalks and sitting on front steps of buildings. A commercial area of Old Town jammed with numerous small eateries close to one another. A man riding a bicycle in the midst of heavy traffic. Closeups of pedestrians walking on the sidewalks, and young people sitting on the sidewalk, next to buildings. A man stripped to the waist taking a cigarette (possibly a marijuana joint).He lights it. Scene shifts to a shop where women try on various wigs. Many people in typical 1960s fashions. Another street scene showing various eating places, including Paul Bunyan, at 1355 North Wells Street. Large umbrella light at entrance to Piper's Alley. Customers visiting various small shops and galleries, in Piper's Alley. An African American boy having his portrait drawn by a street artist. His mother watching. Glimpse of the boy's portrait.

Date: 1965
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036796
American sailors in training during World War I march and go through a rifle drill at Naval Station Great Lakes facility

U.S. Navy sailors march during training exercises in the United States at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station near North Chicago. The sailors march in ranks on a parade field. They hold rifles. Buildings of the Station in the far background. Some of the sailors stand at attention. They undergo a rifle drill. They put bayonets in scabbards and pretend to aim and fire from standing position. The sailors march in formation. Smoke from a chimney in the foreground.

Date: 1917
Duration: 4 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675077388