Andrew A. Erish

They made movies in Chicago before Hollywood. In the first decade of the twentieth century Selig Polyscope produced lots and lots of short silent movies. Not many remain but they had a big studio with inside and outside shooting up near Western and Irving Park. The Essanay studios came later when Bronco Billy Anderson left Selig to start a studio with Spoors. This is Chicago history ripe for me to write a story with my fictional characters.