PBS American Experience 2003 Chicago City of the Century – Part 1: Mudhole to Metropolis
English | Documentary | Size: 1.02 GB

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 [Read more…]