The budget for this amateur feature film was ponied up by the Chicago Daily Times. The story concerns an idealistic doctor who is banished from a leading medical foundation for his "radical" views. Undaunted, the hero continues his experiments in the basement of his home, hoping to eventually develop a cure for infantile paralysis (this was long before the Salk breakthrough of the early 1950s). He is helped along by the son of a prominent Chicago stockbroker, who happens to have studied medicine and who also happens to be in love with the doctor's daughter. The acting is mediocre and the production values are nonexistent; still, It Happened in Chicago scored points with the critics on the basis of its sincerity (even though it began life as a circulation-boosting gimmick for the Times).
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