Race and the Silver Screen in Chicago’s Loop: Gerald R. Butters on his new book, “From Sweetback to Superfly”

By Toni Nealie Chicago’s Loop was once a lively area of movie theaters, the second most important cinema market in the country from the 1920s through the 1970s. By 1990, all eleven venues were gone. Film historian and Aurora University professor Gerald R. Butters has written a thoroughly researched and absorbing book, “From Sweetback to […]