Motorola executive Martin Cooper was standing on Sixth Avenue just blocks from Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan on April 3, 1973 — 50 years ago today — when he dialed his Chicago-built cellphone prototype.
Kori Rumore brings her encyclopedic knowledge of all things Chicago to share the Windy City connections to this historic event and some of the inspirations behind Motorola’s iconic “brick phone”.
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