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Plot

"Battle for Chicago" is part three of American Experience: Chicago - City of the Century, based on the book by Don Miller. David Ogden Stiers narrates. After the Haymarket Square incident, the unified work force was defeated and crime was on the rise. The various European immigrants in Chicago created ethnic ghettos in opposition to one another. Prostitution, corruption, and drug use increased. In 1889, social reformer Jane Addams established Hull House, a settlement house in the West Side that offered free social services and education for poor people. Social changes led to the construction of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Auditorium Theater. Chicago was named the site for the 1893 World's Fair. This program was originally broadcast on PBS in January of 2003.
Genre(s):
Documentary,Epic and Historical,Special Interest
Run Time:
90min.
Distributor(s):
PBS
Director(s):
Austin Hoyt , Patricia Garcia Rios
Starring:
David Ogden Stiers
Tone:
Literate,Sweeping,Elegant
Keywords:
World's-Fair,big-city,chronicle,corruption,determination,gambling,hardships,immigration,ingenuity,labor [work],poverty,prostitute/prostitution,roots [origins],skyscraper
Language:
English