W9XAA, WCFL Chicago

The first television station in Chicago was W9XAA, which went on the air in 1928. It was the television arm of what was then the Chicago Federation of Labor’s WCFL radio. On June 19th, 1928, the station broadcast the head and shoulders of E. N. Nichols, the secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor. U. A. Sanabria headed the television broadcasts, which were from Navy Pier. The station was built by A. J. Carter. Sanabria later started W9XAO and Western Television, which probably made more mechanical television sets than any other company in the United States. For more information, see Chicago Television History and William Parker's article. 

The following articles are from WCFL Radio Magazine, published in the fall of 1928, announcing the introduction of television.