Chicago : city of the century. Part 1, Mudhole to metropolis / a co-production of WGBH Boston and WTTW Chicago in association with the Chicago Historical Society for American Experience ; produced, written and directed by Austin Hoyt
Chicago's location at the end of a canal that links the Mississippi to New York makes it attractive to Yankee speculators as well as Irish canal diggers. 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
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Title from title screen (viewed March 27, 2008)
Based on the book City of the Century by Donald L. Miller
Originally broadcast on the PBS series American experience in 2003
Credits
Camera, Michael Chin, Terry Hopkins ; music, Michael Bacon
