Eight Minutes in August: The F-5 Plainfield Tornado of 1990 Joliet Area Historical Museum 2016-01-04 | A documentary recounting the August 28, 1990 Plainfield Tornado, which struck the communities of Plainfield, Crest Hill and Joliet, Illinois just forty miles outside of Chicago. The F-5 (now EF-5) Tornado struck without warning, taking 29 lives, and remains one of the most powerful, mysterious tornadoes in recorded history. This documentary film was produced by the Joliet Area Historical Museum with gracious assistance from the City of Joliet, WJOL 1340, the Plainfield Historical Society and WGN-TV. Video and production services were provided by Arseneau Media Productions, Inc., Kankakee, Illinois. For more information about the Joliet Area Historical Museum, or to donate to the Museum to keep projects like this funded, visit www.jolietmuseum.org.
I Remember Joliets Christmas Past presentation at the Joliet Area Historical Museum (2022) Joliet Area Historical Museum 2022-12-22 | Why do Jolietans send Christmas cards, decorate streetlights, and decorate with candy canes? Find out the answer to these questions and take a walk down a vintage Christmastime memory lane in this nostalgic presentation by local historian Mary Beth Gannon, recorded at the Joliet Area Historical Museum on December 4th, 2022.
Fourteen Virtual Presentation with Author Bill OConnell Joliet Area Historical Museum 2021-09-17 | An installment of the Joliet Area Historical Museum's virtual programming featuring Author Bill O'Connell discussing his riveting book "Fourteen" which explores the 1968 murder of fourteen-year-old David Stukel by fellow students Billy Rose Sprinkle and James Perruquet. O'Connell delivers insightful accounts of the days leading up to the vicious killing of Joliet East High School Freshman Stukel and its ongoing impact on the community more than four decades later.
Where is Molly Zelko? Exploring Joliets Greatest Mystery with the Joliet Area Historical Museum Joliet Area Historical Museum 2021-02-02 | This virtual roundtable, recorded live at the Joliet Area Historical Museum on Thursday evening, January 28, 2021 discusses the unsolved disappearance of newspaper editor Amelia "Molly" Zelko in September of 1957 and builds on information from the podcast "The Spectator: Who Killed Molly Zelko?" produced by the Museum and Joliet Public Library: www.thespectatorpodcast.comThe program is moderated by Greg Peerbolte, Executive Director of the Joliet Area Historical. Panelists include: Lonny Cain, a retired journalist, who re-opened the case in an unprecedented two week series with fellow reporter John Whiteside at the Joliet Herald-News in 1978. Cain later went on to become the managing editor at The Ottawa Times for over thirty years; Dennis Enrietta, a third-generation native of the Coal City/Carbon Hill region just southwest of Joliet, is an independent researcher who, inspired by the 1978 Herald-News series, embarked on his own extensive research to tie Molly's disappearance to the larger regional and national forces driving the activities of organized crime. For more information about the Museum, and to donate to the organization to keep projects like this going, please visit: www.jolietmuseum.orgDisclaimer: This program and its tangible contents are considered the intellectual property of the Joliet Area Historical Museum and/or the program panelists, and should not be reproduced in whole or part, in any medium, without explicit permission of the organization or individuals contained therein. The opinions expressed by the individuals in this public program are interpretations and analysis of an historic event and accompanying primary sources and media accounts of such, and are not reflective of an official position held by the Museum, its staff, subsidiaries, or related partners.
