Chicago: City of the Century
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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.

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Status

Ended

Original Name

Chicago: City of the Century

First Air Date

January 13, 2003

Last Air Date

January 15, 2003

Seasons

1

Episodes

3

Language

English

Production Companies

WTTW/ChicagoGBH

Networks

PBS

S01E03

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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