Chicago Part 1, Mudhole to metropolis / [electronic resource] : city of the century. a co-production of WGBH Boston and WTTW Chicago in association with the Chicago Historical Society for American Experience ; produced, written and directed by Austin Hoyt.

Other Titles: City of the century.

Publisher: [Arlington, Va.] : PBS, [2007]

ISBN: 9781415702444 (downloadable video : OverDrive Video)
1415702446 (downloadable video : OverDrive Video)

Subject: Chicago Transit Authority.
Architecture Illinois Chicago Tours.
Railroads, Elevated Illinois Chicago History.
Urban transportation Illinois Chicago History.
Chicago (Ill.) Buildings, structures, etc. Tours.
Chicago (Ill.) History.
Documentary television programs.
Historical television programs.
Documentary Television series. migfg
Historical Television series. migfg
Television programs.

Other titles: American experience (Television program).

Credits: Camera, Michael Chin, Terry Hopkins ; music, Michael Bacon.

Performers: David Ogden Stiers, narrator.

Target Audience: Age group: NR.

Notes: Downloadable video file.
Based on the book City of the Century by Donald L. Miller.
Originally broadcast on the PBS series American experience in 2003.
Title from title screen (viewed on Mar. 27, 2008).
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Summary: 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.