Chicago: City of the Century

Overview

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.

Network

• PBS

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

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  David Ogden Stiers

  Self - Narrator (voice)

  3 eps

Themes

• industry

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