List of episodes of the series «Chicago: City of the Century»

Mudhole to Metropolis

• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 87 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

The Revolution Has Begun

• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 87 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Battle for Chicago

• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 84 min.
• Episode description:
  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.