American Experience · SEASON 15
Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for Chicago
Episode 5 · 2003-01-15
- Documentary
Episode overview
A three-part history based on historian Donald L. Miller's book "City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America." Part 3 concludes by exploring the city's ethnic and class tensions during the 1880s and '90s. Ethnic groups banded together in what narrator David Ogden Stiers calls "a defensive communalism," but most immigrants headed first to the city's worst slum, the Near West Side, which was presided over by Alderman Johnny Powers, the "prince of the boodlers," who traded services for votes.
55 minutes
Season 15 episodes
1. Jimmy Carter (1): Jimmy Who?2002-11-11
2. Jimmy Carter (2): Hostage2002-11-12
3. Chicago: City of the Century (1): Mudhole to Metropolis2003-01-13
4. Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun2003-01-14
5. Chicago: City of the Century (3): Battle for Chicago2003-01-15
6. The Murder of Emmett Till2003-01-20
7. Transcontinental Railroad2003-01-27
8. Partners of the Heart2003-02-10
9. The Pill2003-02-24
10. Daughter from Danang2003-04-07
11. Seabiscuit2003-04-21
12. Bataan Rescue2003-07-07
13. Murder at Harvard2003-07-14
