The Chicago Maternity Center Story
1976, 60 minutes
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 center with the stories of a young woman about to have her first baby and the center's fight to stay open in the face of the corporate takeover of medicine.
Chicago Maternity Center Story to be restored!
June 22, 2010
The National Film Preservation Fund has awarded Kartemquin a preservation grant to restore The Chicago Maternity Center Story, a groundbreaking work from Kartemquin's 1970's collective period. We would like to thank the NFPF and our project partners Chicago Film Archives, who will house the film and provide access. Read more about the NFPF's recent grant awards.
- Made by
- Jerry Blumenthal
- Suzanne Davenport
- Sharon Karp
- Gordon Quinn
- Jennifer Rohrer
- Assistance
- Teena Webb
- Susan Delson
- Vickie Cooper
- Betsy Martens
- Richard Schmeichen
- Judy Hoffman
- Peter Kuttner
Chicago International Film Festival, 1977 – Silver Hugo
Filmex – Certificate of Merit
Melbourne Film Festival – Diploma of Merit
Leipzig Film Festival – Official Selection
Berlin Film Festival – Official Selection
"Powerful and persuasive!"
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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