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Chicago: City of the Century

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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StatusEnded
Original NameChicago: City of the Century
First Air DateJanuary 13, 2003
Last Air DateJanuary 15, 2003
Seasons1
Episodes3
Episode Runtime 0min
LanguageEnglish
Original LanguageEnglish
Production CountriesUnited States of America
Production CompaniesWTTW/ChicagoGBH
NetworksPBS
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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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