Chicago's Golden Age of Radio

Did you know that the Golden Age of Radio was based right here in Chicago? Learn more about the city’s major role in the radio revolution of the 1930s and 1940s while listening to Chicago-based programs like Fibber McGee and Molly, The WLS National Barn Dance, Vic and Sade, and Lights Out. We will discover how radio helped bring the country together during the Depression and through World War II, and how it eventually lost its dominance to television.

Gwen Ihnat, a former editor at the Chicago History Museum, holds an M.A. from Northwestern University and has taught several Newberry seminars on old-time radio.

Register online (eight sessions, $190).