Chicago: City of the Century(2003)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2003-01-13
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 3
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.
Keywords
industry
Seasons & Episodes
Miniseries
Episodes: 3E01
Mudhole to Metropolis
Air Date: 2003-01-13
Chicago's location at the end of a canal linking the Mississippi to New York makes it attractive to Yankee speculator...
E02
The Revolution Has Begun
Air Date: 2003-01-14
From the railroads to Marshall Field's department store to Cyrus McCormick's reaper factory to the stockyards, worker...
E03
Battle for Chicago
Air Date: 2003-01-15
Chicago develops the world's first skyscraper downtown, with a unique American architectural style. In its shadows ar...
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