The Story of Chicago: Crossroads of America

A deep dive into Chicago, the Capital of the Midwest and host of the 20204 Democratic National Convention. This is a complete, remastered version published previously in four parts.
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Discover Chicago: The Crossroads of America
0:00 Welcome to Chicago
1:20 A Sleepy Frontier Town
2:04 Railroads Help Industry Takes Off
3:10 Prarie Boomtown
5:00 Union Stockyards
6:24 The Battle Against Cholera
7:10 Chicago's Innovative Water System
9:02 Reversing the River

Thanks to Paul Durica and the Chicago History Museum https://www.chicagohistory.org/

Main sources: WTTW Chicago's local PBS station    / @wttw  
Source for archival images: https://artic.contentdm.oclc.org/digi...
WTTW PBS Chicago:    / @wttw  
The Current War:    • The Current War (2017) - Chicago Worl...  
University of Chicago’s Atomic Ambitions    • Primed for a quantum leap in research  
Nuclear Industry of Illinois
https://apnews.com/article/illinois-n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Demographics of Chicago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...
Timuel Black Interview on The Great Migration    • Growing up in Chicago’s “Black Belt” ...  
Create Rail Improvement Projects https://www.createprogram.org/projects/
Renovating Union Station    • Massive modernization project announc...  
Chicago is America’s Rail Hub    • Why Chicago’s Rail Hub Is So Vital to...  
Chicago by L    • Chicago by 'L' with Geoffrey Baer  
City at War: Chicago’s Steel Industry    • Видео  
NYT: A Battle Between a Great Lake and a Great City https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...
Metro Water Reclamation Department Virtual Tour    • MWRD Virtual Tour: Deep Tunnel, Waste...  
NBC: How Chicago drains its river during flooding    • Rising Risks: Chicago in danger due t...  
Air temperature increase https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/moni...
Hydrologist Drew Gronewold on Lake Michigan’s High Water Level    • University of Michigan's Drew Gronewo...  
The history of Millenium Park    • The history of Millennium Park in 3 m...  
Biking the boulevards    • Biking the Boulevards with Geoffrey Baer  
Giulia Baroncini   / semicercatesonoingiro  
Building the Obama Center    • Building the Obama Presidential Cente...  
Meigs Field news coverage    • Meigs Field Airport Destruction News ...  
Meigs doc    • Meigs Field sequence from "One Six Ri...  
Building Chicago's parks    • Behind the Scenes of Curating "From S...  
WTTW City in a garden history https://news.wttw.com/2012/12/13/city...
VK Brown    • Chicago Film Institute V K Brown, Par...  
More https://www.pgpedia.com/b/virgil-k-brown
Jane Addams documentary    • Jane Addams: Together We Rise — A Chi...  
Forest Preserves    • Coming May 2016 - Chicago’s True Natu...