Chicago: City of the Century - Part 3: Battle for Chicago

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. It's the story of the wealthy and the indigent, the heralded and the forgotten, the shop assistants and the millionaire retail barons who together created Chicago. It describes how through innovation, ingenuity, determination and sheer ruthlessness, the captains of industry created empires in a marshy wasteland. And it explores the hardships endured by the millions of working men and women -- most of them immigrants from Ireland and Northern Europe -- whose labor helped a capitalist class reinvent the way America did business.

Release Date

January 15, 2003

Status

Released

Original Title

Chicago: City of the Century - Part 3: Battle for Chicago

Runtime

1h 24min

Budget

Revenue

Language

English

Production Companies

GBH

Part of

Chicago: City of the Century

Includes: Chicago: City of the Century - Part 1: Mudhole to Metropolis, Chicago: City of the Century: Part 2 - The Revolution Has Begun, Chicago: City of the Century - Part 3: Battle for Chicago