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Chicago: City of the Century

20031 Season

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Genre: Documentary
Origin: US

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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.

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Director: Austin Hoyt
Writing: Austin Hoyt
Status: Ended
First aired: Jan 13, 2003
Network: PBS
Studio: WTTW/Chicago, GBH

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2 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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David Ogden Stiers

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Chicago: City of the Century

20031 Season

Documentary

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Genre: Documentary
Origin: US

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Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Jan 13, 2003 · 1h 27m
Mudhole to Metropolis
Chicago'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.
E2 · Airs Jan 14, 2003 · 1h 27m
The Revolution Has Begun
From 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.
E3 · Airs Jan 15, 2003 · 1h 24m
Battle for Chicago
Chicago 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.

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Director: Austin Hoyt
Writing: Austin Hoyt
Status: Ended
First aired: Jan 13, 2003
Network: PBS
Studio: WTTW/Chicago, GBH

Time to finish

2 hrs

3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

David Ogden Stiers

Self - Narrator (voice)

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