A Big Time Hurt: Zenith Plant 10 Years After Closing
- Producing Organization
- WBEZ
- Contributing Organization
- WBEZ (Chicago, Illinois)
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- cpb-aacip/50-3331zjq4
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- " Today marks the 10th anniversary of a historic plant closure in the Chicago's western suburbs. For more than three decades the Zenith plant in Melrose Park turned out millions of picture tubes. Those tubes were installed in televisions and sent around the world under the slogan "the quality goes in before the name goes on." But after years of struggle, the company decided to close the plant, and lay off the last 1,200 workers making a living there. Ten years ago to the day, employees at the Zenith plant worked their last shift and said goodbye to the massive facility. This is a documentary produced by Chicago Public Radio's Ben Calhoun. He spoke to three Zenith employees about their time at the plant, what it meant to them, and their feelings about the decline of American manufacturing. A few years ago Chicago photographer Ken Burkhart was asked to document the Zenith facility before it was torn demolished. He spent days exploring the plant with little more than floor plans and a spotlight. He found parts of the enormous building in disrepair, as some rooms so intact the looked like they were still in use. Ben Calhoun produced this slideshow of their collaborative work. "
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- Sound
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: WBEZ
Editor: Sam Stalling
Producing Organization: WBEZ
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Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ-FM) and Vocalo.org
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- Chicago: “A Big Time Hurt: Zenith Plant 10 Years After Closing,” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 4, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-3331zjq4.
- MLA: “A Big Time Hurt: Zenith Plant 10 Years After Closing.” WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 4, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-3331zjq4>.
- APA: A Big Time Hurt: Zenith Plant 10 Years After Closing. Boston, MA: WBEZ, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-50-3331zjq4