This video on Chicago’s last Black-owned roller rink features skaters recounting the origins of “J.B. style” skating and reflecting on what the long-time South Side staple means to them.

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This five-part video series, which received more than a million organic views, tracks down the Chicago band members, musicians, and dancers who helped create five iconic dance moves.

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In this short documentary, Ilse Cruz, an undocumented Chicago teen, navigates her senior year of high school while seeking an alternative pathway to permanent residency.

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This video profiles Phoenix Bean owner Jenny Yang and how she’s expanded her tofu business to sell her products everywhere from school cafeterias to Whole Foods.

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This video profiles Oriana Kruszewski, who’s worked for the past 30 years to cultivate a variety of Asian pears that thrives in Illinois.

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This explainer video investigates the origins of the common stereotype of Midwesterners as polite, friendly, and passive-aggressive.

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This video follows Chicago Japanese Americans as they organize an Asian American contingent of the Families Belong Together rally protesting migrant family separation and detention.

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This video profiles Andrzej and Bartosz Dajnowski, who have restored most of Chicago’s public art and also revolutionized the field of art conservation worldwide.

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This explainer video deconstructs the design of the Hancock Center in Chicago, and how it changed the way architects and engineers around the the world thought about the structure of the modern skyscraper.

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This video follows Northwest Indiana resident Beth Braun as she conducts a citizen science experiment to find out whether lead emissions from the nearby steel mill are landing in her backyard.

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This explainer video tracks down the roots of a racist Chicago political phrase and considers whether it’s time to retire it.

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This explainer video investigates the politics and personalities behind why Chicago continued to install lead pipes long after many cities banned them.

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This video on Chicago’s urban coyotes follows researchers as they track down and tag coyote pups.

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This video on Mexican bakeries in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood answers a reader’s question about how the bakeries stay in business with so much surrounding competition.

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