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Web Extra: Chicago Tonight’s First Episode

WTTW News | April 24, 2014, 12:30 pm

In celebration of our 30th anniversary, we revisit John Callaway’s interview with Harold Washington on April 24, 1984—the very first episode of “Chicago Tonight.”

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