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1. Marj Halperin - Child's Play Theater

   Chicago Theater company that works in classrooms to help kids write their own stories, then performs them. Produced for NPR's Morning Edition.

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2. Marj Halperin - Council fireworks May 2 & 4

   Ed Vrdolyak leads council faction against Harold Washington's agenda. Starts with a prolonged standing O for Washington.

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3. Marj Halperin - Credit & Privacy: the local picture.

   Part 2 of two party "Radiofile" report developed for WNIU-FM, the public radio station that gave me my first full time job out of college. Maybe quaint by today's standards, a look at threats to personal privacy posed by national banking system and others.

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4. Marj Halperin - Crossroads

   Asian immigrants story - Report on the "New Age Hispanic American Repertory Theater Company" production of "the wedding dress" by Brazillian playright Nelson Rodriquez. (Koyukon people in Alaska - "Make Prayers to the Raven"; Ethiopians in Washington D.C.).

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5. Marj Halperin - Desmond Tutu rally & news conf

   Hosted by Harold Washington (who gifts him a Chicago Bears pen) [side begins with interviews of people who took a "flirting" class to learn dating skills--you might disregard this] Cued to start with the Tutu event. [side 2 (after 40 minutes) content jumps around - Collins School, some Tutu, Bears, Harold Washington].

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6. Marj Halperin - Dunham music

   Katherine Dunham Paris-Haiti album.

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7. Marj Halperin - Elements

   Interviews and other elements for violin making school story, colorblind casting for The Wiz, matzo factory, FLIP SIDE: weddings & AIDS.

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8. Marj Halperin - Fine Tuning election special

   WXRT news team reports on tumultuous local elections (Byrne opposed Daley's re-election bid for Cook County State's Attorney).

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9. Marj Halperin - GOP National Convention

   Floor speeches : Tip O'Neil, Jack Kemp, Henry Kissinger. IL Senator Chuck Percy & Governor Jim Thompson on platform floor fight

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10. Marj Halperin - Gun control passed, 1982

    Marty Oberman: court orders city to release Hay personnel report (basis for Mayor Byrne's hiring policies) and others related to hiring and Shakman decree. Also: city council resolution celebrating John Belushi, after his death in 1982. And gun registration ordinance , with Ald. Burke amendment. Includes voices of Alderman Oberman and Ald Larry Bloom.

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11. Marj Halperin - Harold Washington 100 days and first year

    I don't want to fight…I'm a lover, not a fighter but it has made me a committed person, committed to healing".

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12. Marj Halperin - Harold Washington dies

    Marj reports on NPR's "All Things Considered", followed by interviews with then-Alderman Danny Davis.

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13. Marj Halperin - Harold Washington elected

    WXRT news team reports from various candidate HQ election night as Washington beats Bernard Epton.

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14. Marj Halperin - Interviews on stock crash anniversary

    Walter Tiinter and Rubin Thorson, Payne Webber "….take all the money in the world and put it in one hat. The same people that have it today will have it again".

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15. Marj Halperin - Jane Byrne's greatest hits

    Byrne sings (badly) at senior picnics and other events.

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16. Marj Halperin - Jerry Fallwell and Armand Hammer

    4-22-81: Fallwell s2/2-24-81:Hammer speech Middle East peace (followed by public testimony at City Council on whites Byrne appointed to school board].

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17. Marj Halperin - Jesse Jackson & Michael Dukakis

    Jesse Jackson campaign rally (Cicero?) 1988.

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18. Marj Halperin - Jimmy Carter with Byrne funder

    Carter supports Byrne at a fundraiser (see also #35).

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19. Marj Halperin - John Anderson

    City Club speech, post-mortem on his failed independent bid for White House.

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20. Marj Halperin - Juvenile Court

    This was my final report for National Public Radio, a report on a child support center opening in Cook County Juvenile Court Building, a place that--otherwise--had been an extremely hostile environment for children.

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21. Marj Halperin - K. Dunham

    Interview with African-American dancer/activist, talking about her career, including early work in Chicago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Dunham

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22. Marj Halperin - K. Dunham music/Winnetka react

    This also includes man-on-street interviews with grade school students and others after the horrific grade school shootings by Laurie Dann. She shot and killed one boy and wounded two girls and three boys in a Winnetka, Illinois elementary school. She then took a family hostage and shot another man before killing herself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Dann

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23. Marj Halperin - Koko Taylor

    Extensive interview with Koko, her husband Pops and daughter Cookie, including some impromptu singing. I was writing a long-form piece for Chicago Magazine. However, the Tribune scooped us and it never ran.

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24. Marj Halperin - Koko benefit

    Benefit concert held for Koko and her band after a serious car crash while on tour. Includes music of Kinsey Report, Son Seals, Lonnie Brooks, "sweet Home Chicago" finale. MC: WXRT's Terri Hemmert.

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25. Marj Halperin - Koko benefit II

    Koko benefit continued.

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