The Museum of Broadcast Communications opened in 1987 at River City, 800 S. Wells St. — with a variety of historical artifacts and recordings from old-time radio and TV, a vast video archive, and a ...

DuMont was born June 18, 1944, in New London, Connecticut, and lived in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood growing up. His uncle, Allen DuMont, was the founder of the DuMont television network — a ...