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Travel back to the World's Fair of 1893 and experience the first Ferris wheel through movies and virtual reality

Learn about three silent-era Chicago movie theaters that survived the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Walk virtually with Chicago Movie Tours and hear why some Chicagoans claimed small movie houses lured certain filmgoers into a life of sin.

On this virtual walking tour, learn about the S.S. Eastland tragedy via a suburban Chicago speakeasy and film.

Get a bite-sized history of Hollywood censorship and Chicago's role in the matter

Go on location in Chicago to learn what what low-angle shots signify in The Dark Knight — and in Hollywood movies in general.

I don't like The Dark Knight, but if you run a business called Chicago Movie Tours, then you must submit to the movie at some point.

Discover one way to clean 1920s movie houses on the cheap After the 1918 Flu Pandemic , movie theater owners in Chicago and across the...

Try your hand at 1 question about Chicago's movie history In this series, Bite-Sized Chicago Movie Trivia, we locate a building, an...

In educating 1930s Chicagoans about the dangers of syphilis, movies played a couple of roles.

Take a quick look—then and now—at Chicago's Central Park Theatre. Around this time in 1917, a theater opened at 3535 W. Roosevelt Road in...

Technology, giving movie audiences trouble since 1920... "The Boy Scout leaders did not mess up your movie!" This was the cry heard...

Discover three reasons Carl Laemmle is a pioneer in film and Chicago

Silent film titles suggest Hollywood took note of the bungalow explosion in America

A suburban Chicago movie theater takes movie marketing to a realistic and unnerving level.