Chicago: City of the Century
Season 1 • Episode 3: Battle for Chicago • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: Battle for Chicago
January 15, 2003 • 84 min
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.
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