Footage of Chicago during the 1940s.

Includes shots of: City streets and buildings; a subway train in a station; people boarding a train; a building burned by a fire; an Opera building; crowds at an outdoor market; Wrigley Field and a baseball game there; a meat packing center; cattle in pens; the campus of Northwestern University; trains and a netword of railroad tracks; boys eating watermelons; and finally, scenes at parks and a beach.