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Prologue Alternative High School is a not-for-profit community-based organization that operates three alternative high schools in Chicago.
Interviewing Mary Hollis and Sandra Maxwell, members of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Discussing Chicago neighborhoods with Alderman Dick Simpson, Ron Shaffman, Mary Lou Daniel and Fabian Padilla.
The Inspiration Cafe provides meals for the homeless in a restaurant-like setting.
Commemorating the centennial of the Haymarket Square Riot, or Haymarket Affair, are authors and historians Bill Adelman, Paul Avrich, Carolyn Ashbaugh, and the grandson of Haymarket defendant Oscar Neebe, Bill Neebe. The interveiwees create a timeline of the events leading up to the Haymarket Riot including the German immigrants living situations, unions and strikes, police brutality and corruption. The group also lays out the events from May 1st to May 5th and then the following corrupt trials.