Locals Make Flicks With Few Bucks: `Chain’ a Career Link For Young Filmmaker
Illinois filmmaker Robert Hicks has a resume that reads like a movie script. The 24-year-old writer and director of “The Glass Chain” (now playing at the Elgin Fox Theatres in Elgin) got his show business start as a soprano in a Chicago Symphony Orchestra chorus when he was 10. By the time his voice changed in 1984, he had sung solos on three Grammy-winning albums.