Summary: Chess Records was located on the south side of Chicago. In 1947, it began recording blues music with Muddy Waters and Little Walter. This eventually gave birth to rock and roll in 1955 with Chuck Berry. Record producer, Leonard Chess has an ear for this different type of music and believes he can cash in by signing up new talent such as songwriter, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CADSummary: Eric Clapton headlines a festival featuring some of the world's greatest guitar players including Jeff Beck, B.B. King, Vince Gill, Buddy Guy, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CROFleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Combating the city's most heinous crimes, the priority of Detective Sergeant Hank Voight and his intelligence team has always been to protect their great city, bringing criminals to justice by any means necessary. Facing a new day and age in Chicago, Police are under siege and under a microscope. With police reform in full swing, the team is forced to navigate treacherous conditions in their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHISummary: Kasper Carr is a master thief, targeting businesses in the Chicago area. He stakes out fresh opportunities in front of a documentary film crew, which gradually becomed complicit in his crimes. As the director and producer become entangled in the allure of their fascinating subject and the legal ramifications of their actions, Carr pursues a series of larger-scale and more dangerous jobs. All...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Indie Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STRShakey Jake.
Contents: Disc 1. Everything gonna be alright ; Hold that bus, conductor ; Strollin' the strip ; Respect me baby ; I will always love you ; Three times seven ; Farther on up the road ; A hard road to travel ; Save your money, baby ; Too hot to hold ; Long distance call ; Don't answer the door ; Love me baby ; Chains of love (Shakey Jake) ; The sky is falling ; Long distance operator ; I'm a free man ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES CHISummary: At 83, Chicago legend Buddy Guy remains the standard-bearer for the blues, an icon determined to see the art form live on long after he's gone. Enter young guitar phenom Quinn Sullivan, who has been mentored by Guy since he was a kid. This stirring documentary, amplified by electrifying musical performances, charts the guidance Guy himself received from the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin'...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TORRogers, Jimmy.
Contents: You're the one (2:28) -- Money, marbles and chalk (3:16) -- Luedella (2:51) -- Act like you love me (3:50) -- Back door friend (3:20) -- Last time (2:42) -- I used to have a woman (3:06) -- Sloppy drunk (3:00) -- Blues leave me alone (3:02) -- Out on the road (2:51) -- Goin' away baby (2:42) -- That's all right (2:45) -- Chicago bound (2:40) -- Walking by myself (2:46).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chess 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ROGSummary: After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood take their blues band back on the road in an attempt to raise money for the orphanage where they were raised. Havoc ensues as the brothers seek redemption on their 'mission from God.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY BLUYoung, Johnny
Contents: Prison bound -- Sugar farm blues -- All my money gone -- My home ain't here -- Blues for big time -- Did you get that letter? -- I'm leaving baby -- I got it -- Bumble bee -- Meet me in the bottom -- You made me feel so good -- Want my lovin' -- Blues and trouble -- Kid man blues -- Humpty dumpty -- Instrumental -- Forty-four blues -- Whoop it up.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Testament Records 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES YOUWhiteis, David.
Summary: Explores the history of blues music in Chicago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 WHIContents: Sit and cry -- Try to quit you baby -- You sure can't do -- This is the end -- I can't quit you baby -- Groaning the blues -- Sit down -- Double trouble -- Violent love -- Three times a fool -- My love will never die -- She's a good 'un -- Keep on loving me baby -- All your love -- Love me with feeling -- Everything gonna be alright -- Easy baby -- 21 days in jail -- You sure can't do -- This...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Paula Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES CHISummary: Cheaper by the dozen: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family CheaperBishop, Elvin.
Summary: The follow up to Elvin Bishop's Can't Do No Wrong features Bishop's down-home delivery, deep blues picking and slide guitar, playfully meshing with Bob Welsh's piano and guitar licks and Willy Jordan's soul singing and propulsive cajon playing. The album's laidback, front-porch vibe mixes four rollicking Bishop originals with three co-writes and five raucous, well-chosen covers.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alligator Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BISSummary: For the first time in years the entire Rodriguez clan comes home to Chicago to celebrate Christmas where traditions will be celebrated. During the course of this eventful week they will celebrate one member's safe return from Iraq, secrets will be revealed, old resentments forgotten, each family member will learn something about themselves and each other, and the healing power of laughter will...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NOTSummary: Executive producer Dick Wolf delivers the latest installment of the compelling Chicago franchise, an emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors, nurses, and staff who hold it together. Crossing paths with familiar faces from Chicago P.D. and Chicago Fire, this third team of Chicago heroes take on cases inspired by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CHISummary: Under the resolute command of Sergeant Hank Voight, the elite intelligence unit continues their relentless fight to take down the city's most dangerous criminals. But just how far is the squad willing to go to achieve justice and protect their own?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHISummary: At the helm of the Intelligence Unit is Sergeant Hank Voight, a man not against crossing legal and ethical lines to ensure the safety of the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect the security of the city he loves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ch 1Summary: Harry Dresden is a private detective who also happens to be a real wizard. Although he tries to be a regular guy, Harry finds himself helping the Chicago police solve inexplicable crimes and battle dark forces that lurk around the city streets. Harry deals in all matters of supernatural threats.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DRESummary: Dr. Will Halstead balances the stress as the ER's supervising attending physician with his complicated relationship with Dr. Natalie Manning, an attending physician in emergency pediatrics. Newly remarried, Dr. Daniel Charles remains he Sherlock Holmes of psychiatry. Former Navy flight surgeon Dr. Ethan Choi brings his battlefield skills to the front lines of Chicago's busiest ER, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ch 5Summary: Continues to chronicle the daily life-and-death battles of Chicago's elite medical professionals as they navigate challenging medical emergencies and intense personal drama. In last season's cliffhanger finale, Dr. Will Halstead got down on one knee and proposed to Dr. Natalie Manning, but will the two ever make it down the aisle?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Ch 4Hunter, Alberta.
Contents: St. Louis blues (2:33) -- Moanin' low (4:41) -- Downhearted blues (2:55) -- Now I'm satisfied (2:45) -- Sweet Georgia Brown (6:36) -- You better change (5:34) -- C-jam blues (2:52) -- Streets paved with gold (3:02) -- Gallon stomp (3:05) -- I will always be in love with you (3:26).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos Music Library 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES HUNContents: disc 1. Who but you (James Clark) -- Drifting (Memphis Jimmy (James Clark) -- Delta pine blues ; Ride, ride mama ; Evil-hearted woman blues (Johnny Shines) -- I'm gonna cut your head ; Tomorrow will be too late (Homer Harris) -- Due respects to you ; No special rider here (Willie 'Long Time' Smith) -- Little boy blue ("Blue Boy" Bill) -- Burying ground blues (Muddy Waters) -- Come to me baby ;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019