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The Chicago Maternity Center Story Film Project records

The Chicago Maternity Center Story is a 60 minute 1975 film by Kartemquin Films. For more than 75 years, the Chicago Maternity Center provided safe home deliveries for Chicago mothers. However, when modern medicine's attitude toward home birth changed and funding from Northwestern University declined in 1974, the center was forced to close. This film interweaves the history of the