Mudhole to Metropolis

January 13, 2003

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Chicago: City of the Century - S1 - E1

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.

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Chicago: City of the Century: Season 1 - 3 Episode s

1x1 - Mudhole to Metropolis
January 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.
1x2 - The Revolution Has Begun
January 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.
1x3 - Battle for Chicago
January 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.

Mudhole to Metropolis

Chicago: City of the Century - S1 - E1

Chicago: City of the Century: Season 1 - 3 Episode s

1x1 - Mudhole to Metropolis

1x2 - The Revolution Has Begun

1x3 - Battle for Chicago

Chicago: City of the Century: All seasons

S0: Specials

S1: Miniseries