We get questions from people looking for film footage, news and otherwise.
The Chicago History Museum has the WGN newsfilm collection, [ca. 1948-1977, bulk 1952-1977]. Please contact research@chicagohistory.org with questions about this collection after reading the attached information sheet.
To our knowledge, this is the only news footage collection in the member institutions. We encourage researchers to reach out to news outlets themselves about their archival holdings.
Members Chicago Film Archives and Media Burn Archives should be contacted directly about their holdings.
Please note that it is challenging to both locate a specific piece of footage and general shots of Chicago (think B-roll footage).
