Chicago [videorecording] : 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.

Contributor Hoyt, Austin.

Imprint:[United States] : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Window to the World Communications, Inc. ; Distributed by PBS Home Video, : , c2003.

Description4 videodiscs ( 345 min.) : sd., b&w with col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Based on the book "City of the Century " by Donald L. Miller.

Note:Co-produced and co-directed by Patricia Garcia Rios ; music, Michael Bacon ; camera, Michael Chin, Terry Hopkins ; creative consultant, Donald L. Miller ; executive producer, Margaret Drain ; senior producer, Mark Samels.

Note:Special features: Bonus video: Chicago by 'L': touring the neighborhoods ; Behind the scenes interviews with producers Austin Hoyt, Patricia Garcia Rios and historian Donald Miller ; Triva questions: Do you know Chicago?

Note:Disc 1. Mudhole to metropolis / (edited by Bill Lattanzi) -- Disc 2. The revolution has begun / (edited by Bill Lattanzi, Jon Neuburger) -- Disc 3. Battle for Chicago / (edited by Jon Neuburger). -- Disc 4. Chicago by 'L': touring the neighborhoods / (produced by Kelly Luchtman ; written by Geoffrey Baer) and additional interviews

Note:"City of the century tells how in just 60 years Chicago grew from a remote, swampy frontier town into one of the most explosively alive cities in the world". -- Container. Chicago by 'L" is part travelogue, part history, and part tour of Chicago's neighborhoods by 'L', Chicago's elevated train.

Note : PerformerDavid Ogden Stiers, narrator

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