Join us for a free screening of A City at War: Chicago and a panel discussion with retired Navy commander and professor of military psychology Joseph E. Troiani, PhD, filmmaker Brian Kallies, and activist and president emerita of the Women’s Business Development Center Hedy Ratner, moderated by reporter Mike Flannery. Using interviews, rare film footage, vintage propaganda movies, period posters and stills, the film brings to life a vital chapter in US history.   

A City at War: Chicago tells the story of the most significant events that occurred in Chicagoland during World War II and explores the mutually beneficial relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Chicago mayor Ed Kelly. For the first time, with men away fighting the war, tens of thousands of women found employment in factories making everything from bullets and bombs to ships, tanks and planes. African Americans—including the nation’s first group of African American commissioned naval officers—and the city’s many other communities worked together like never before to insure the Allied victory. And perhaps the most important event of the entire war took place when the University of Chicago made its contribution to the top-secret Manhattan Project.

Free; RSVP required. 

Schedule 

12:30 p.m. – Theater doors open; snacks available 
1:00 p.m. – Film screening 
2:30 p.m. – Panel discussion
3:00 p.m. – Event concludes 

A CITY AT WAR: CHICAGO and the Dave Truitt Historical Documentary Series are underwritten exclusively by DAVE TRUITT

Questions? Contact Nell McKeown, development events manager, at mckeown@chicagohistory.org or (312) 799-2112 

Parking is available in the parking lot at 1730 N. Stockton Dr. and may be validated for $10 at the Museum’s Ticket Desk.