Chicago: City of the Century
In just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. Captains of industry built empires through innovation, ingenuity, determination, and sheer ruthlessness, while the labor of millions of working men and women -- most of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe -- helped reinvent the way America did business.
Cast: David Ogden Stiers
Miniseries
3 episodes
- 1. Mudhole to MetropolisChicago's location at the end of a canal linking the Mississippi to New York makes it attractive to Yankee speculators as well as Irish laborers. In just a few decades, the remote fur trading post explodes into the metropolis of the West. Not even the great fire of 1871 can slow the city's development.CC1 h 27 minJan 13, 2003
- 2. The Revolution Has BegunFrom the railroads to Marshall Field's department store to Cyrus McCormick's reaper factory to the stockyards, workers struggle for their share of a new industrial capitalism. The Haymarket Affair becomes the most sensational labor incident of the 19th century.CC1 h 27 minJan 14, 2003
- 3. Battle for ChicagoChicago develops the world's first skyscraper downtown, with a unique American architectural style. In its shadows are gambling, prostitution, corruption, poverty, and disease. In 1893 Chicago's business elite hosts a World's Fair, proudly showing 27 million visitors a glistening, sanitized city of the future.CC1 h 24 minJan 15, 2003
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Chicago: City of the Century
In just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world. Captains of industry built empires through innovation, ingenuity, determination, and sheer ruthlessness, while the labor of millions of working men and women -- most of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe -- helped reinvent the way America did business.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Austin Hoyt
- Created by
- Austin Hoyt
- Studio
- WTTW/Chicago, GBH
Maturity rating
Not yet rated.
Audio languages
English
Where to watch
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