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Take a look back to Chicago and the home front during World War II, and the contributions of everyday people and businesses to the war effort. Author, investigative journalist and educator Jerome M. O’Connor sheds light on how Americans on the home front helped win the war.
After Pearl Harbor, American industry ended all peacetime production to become the war’s “arsenal of Democracy.” Chicago’s large labor pool, central location and expansive rail network made it the nation’s most important manufacturing and distribution hub. Over 1,400 Chicago area companies converted into war production, including some odd industrial bedfellows. Radio Flyer ended production of its famous little red wagon to make fuel containers. Cretor’s stopped producing popcorn wagons, and started making shell casings. Galvin Manufacturing (Motorola) and Hallicrafters made half of the military’s electronic equipment. Four massive plants supplied or assembled engines, torpedoes and entire aircraft. Victory gardens were on every vacant lot, even on rooftops. Canning kits extended the life of garden produce, contributing 40% of all manufactured foods. Every household rationed all essential goods, with ration books becoming another form of currency.
In this program, Jerome M. O’Connor will present rare images of these same companies from then to now and describe how the home front and the war front combined into a once-in-history accomplishment to preserve democracy. Included will be insider views of the still-existing tunnels in the world’s largest war plant, now Ford City Mall. This unique presentation will celebrate what our parents, grandparents, and neighbors accomplished when victory was the only option.
Jerome M. O’Connor is the award-winning author of The Hidden Places of World War II. A Chicago area resident, certified Chicago tour guide, and college continuing education instructor, O’Connor deeply researches and lectures about the little-known, overlooked, or under-reported people, places and great events of modern history.

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“Saturday Night Lights” welcomes back the phenomenal Chicago-based jazz vocalist and composer Alyssa Allgood, performing with a quartet of Chicago area jazz all-stars. DownBeat Magazine describes Alyssa as “assured and daring,” and the Chicao Tribune calls her a “model of sophisticated song interpretation.” Alyssa brings a modern approach to the jazz tradition with her original compositions, captivating arrangements, and lyrical focus of self-love and human connection.
Alyssa’s program, “Come What May: Songs of Hope and Love,” includes songs from her highly anticipated album of original music due for release in Spring 2024, and featuring internationally acclaimed musicians John Patitucci, Kendrick Scott, Geoffrey Keezer and Greg Ward. 
Alyssa Allgood has established herself as a leading voice in Chicago’s vibrant jazz scene and beyond. She has appeared at such distinguished venues as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Club in Shanghai, Birdland Jazz Club, the Chicago Jazz Festival, the Green Mill, the Jazz Showcase, Winter’s Jazz Club, the Jazz Estate and Noce Jazz Club. She won the Inaugural Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Voice Competition (2017) and the David Baker Memorial Scholarship through the Jazz Education Network (2022). She was also named Best Jazz Entertainer in the Chicago Music Awards (2019), a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Jazz Improvisation Fellow (2016), and a Semifinalist in the Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition (2015), where she performed for a jury presided by jazz legend Al Jarreau.
Your ticket includes three complimentary beverages (wine, beer, soft drinks) and light snacks.

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