
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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Miniseries
3 eps · 2003-01-13
Chicago: City of the Century airing schedule, episode calendar, cast, and synopsis. Chicago: City of the Century airs on PBS.