Midwest Road Trip (5 Part Series)
Series: Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt
From: Changing Gears
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1 – Midwest Road Trip: Kohler, Wisconsin
Changing Gears reporters traveled to places throughout the Midwest where local economies and town cultures revolve around single employers. These big employers used to loom large in everyone’s daily lives. But what do the company towns look like today? We begin our trip in Kohler, Wisconsin with reporter Niala Boodhoo. (8:28)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
2 - Midwest Road Trip: Decatur, Illinois
Our Changing Gears team hit the road and visited Midwestern company towns. Yesterday we were in Kohler, Wisconsin. Today, reporter Niala Boodhoo has made it to Decatur, Illinois. (4:18)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
3 - Midwest Road Trip: Ishpeming, Michigan
Our Changing Gears project is on the road, bringing you stories of towns where one company still affects everybody’s lives. Yesterday we visited Decatur, Illinois. Today, reporter Kate Davidson takes us north, to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. That’s where North America’s biggest supplier of iron ore has been blasting the earth, and creating jobs, for more than 160 years. (3:43)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
4 - Midwest Road Trip: Norwalk, Ohio
Our Changing Gears team is on the road this week. Today, Dan Bobkoff takes us to Norwalk, Ohio, a company town that almost lost its company. That is until the townspeople themselves saved it. (3:59)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
5 – Midwest Road Trip: Orrville, Ohio
Our Changing Gears team has been on the road this week traveling to some of our company towns in the Midwest. Today, our final stop: Orrville, Ohio: A place that seems like a company town, but as Dan Bobkoff found out, there’s long been a whole lot more going on. (4:00)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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1 – Midwest Road Trip: Kohler, Wisconsin
Changing Gears reporters traveled to places throughout the Midwest where local economies and town cultures revolve around single employers. These big employers used to loom large in everyone’s daily lives. But what do the company towns look like today? We begin our trip in Kohler, Wisconsin with reporter Niala Boodhoo. (8:28)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
2 - Midwest Road Trip: Decatur, Illinois
Our Changing Gears team hit the road and visited Midwestern company towns. Yesterday we were in Kohler, Wisconsin. Today, reporter Niala Boodhoo has made it to Decatur, Illinois. (4:18)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
3 - Midwest Road Trip: Ishpeming, Michigan
Our Changing Gears project is on the road, bringing you stories of towns where one company still affects everybody’s lives. Yesterday we visited Decatur, Illinois. Today, reporter Kate Davidson takes us north, to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. That’s where North America’s biggest supplier of iron ore has been blasting the earth, and creating jobs, for more than 160 years. (3:43)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
4 - Midwest Road Trip: Norwalk, Ohio
Our Changing Gears team is on the road this week. Today, Dan Bobkoff takes us to Norwalk, Ohio, a company town that almost lost its company. That is until the townspeople themselves saved it. (3:59)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
5 – Midwest Road Trip: Orrville, Ohio
Our Changing Gears team has been on the road this week traveling to some of our company towns in the Midwest. Today, our final stop: Orrville, Ohio: A place that seems like a company town, but as Dan Bobkoff found out, there’s long been a whole lot more going on. (4:00)
Tag/Funding credit: Changing Gears is a public media collaboration of WBEZ Chicago, Michigan Radio, and ideastream Cleveland. Support comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
