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When Hollywood Landed at Chicago's Midway Airport: The Photos and Stories of Mike Rotunno

by Christopher Lynch

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A photographer’s record of celebrity stopovers at Midway

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A photographer’s record of celebrity stopovers at Midway

Christopher Lynch assembles Mike Rotunno’s photographs and journals into a portrait of Chicago’s Midway Airport during decades when it served as a highly visible arrival point for entertainers and public figures. The book centers on Rotunno’s encounters with figures including Al Capone, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne, using airport anecdotes alongside the surviving visual record. More than a gallery of famous faces, it frames the concourses as a public stage where travel, press attention and celebrity culture intersected over fifty years.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of historical celebrity photography
  • Readers interested in Chicago and Midway Airport history
  • Browsers of twentieth-century American pop culture and public figures

Themes

Celebrity cultureChicago historyAirport travelPhotography archivesTwentieth-century public life

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Book overview

The flash of his camera sent Al Capone diving to the floor. He was asked to escort Bob Hope's wife to church and to hide John Barrymore from his mistress. Cary Grant demanded a shoeshine, Eleanor Roosevelt demanded an apology and Harry Truman demanded a bourbon. Photographer Mike Rotunno was the man on the scene when Chicago's Midway Airport was the crossroads of the world and people walked its concourses just to catch a glimpse of Hollywood's brightest stars. Bump into Bud Abbott, John Wayne, Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe as Christopher Lynch pieces together the amazing story left behind in fifty years of photographs and journals.
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