Chicago: City of the Century poster
Documentary

All Episodes of Chicago: City of the Century

PBS

Browse all episodes of Chicago: City of the Century

All Episodes of 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...
Select Season:

Season 1

  • Mudhole to Metropolis
    N/A/100 votes

    Mudhole to Metropolis

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/2003

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • The Revolution Has Begun
    N/A/100 votes

    The Revolution Has Begun

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/14/2003

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Battle for Chicago
    N/A/100 votes

    Battle for Chicago

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2003

    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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown