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    Disco came and disco went, with Chicago’s Comiskey Park a memorable battleground in ‘The War on Disco’

    CHICAGO — If you can hum a few bars of “Disco Duck,” have I got a show for you. It is the latest episode of the distinguished PBS “American Experience” series, which has over 35 seasons given television viewers award-winning documentaries about usually weighty subjects, as it dips into disco with an entertaining and thought-provoking hourlong trip. One reason is the presence of Chicago and a ...
    by Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune Oct 25, 2023 3 minutes
    Fans take over the field at Comiskey Park during the anti-disco promotion on July 12, 1979, in Chicago.

    CHICAGO — If you can hum a few bars of “Disco Duck,” have I got a show for you.

    It is the latest episode of the distinguished PBS “American Experience” series, which has over 35 seasons given television viewers award-winning documentaries about usually weighty subjects, as it dips into disco with an entertaining and thought-provoking hourlong trip.

    One reason is the presence of Chicago and a number of talking Chicagoans in the episode “The War on Disco,” as the city was the principal battleground in

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