Chicago: Story of an American Giant

A deep dive into Chicago, the Capital of the Midwest and host of the 20204 Democratic National Convention. Subscribe for more    / thedailyconversation   Shop my must-have camera equipment https://www.amazon.com/shop/tdc?ref_=... 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 World Fai...   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” - Tim...   Create Rail Improvement Projects https://www.createprogram.org/projects/ Renovating Union Station    • Massive modernization project announced fo...   Chicago is America’s Rail Hub    • Why Chicago’s Rail Hub Is So Vital to the ...   Chicago by L    • Chicago by 'L' with Geoffrey Baer   City at War: Chicago’s Steel Industry    • Video   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, Wastewater...   NBC: How Chicago drains its river during flooding    • Rising Risks: Chicago in danger due to ris...   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 Gronewold Di...   The history of Millenium Park    • The history of Millennium Park in 3 minutes   Biking the boulevards    • Biking the Boulevards with Geoffrey Baer   Giulia Baroncini   / semicercatesonoingiro   Building the Obama Center    • Building the Obama Presidential Center: Me...   Meigs Field news coverage    • Meigs Field Airport Destruction News Cover...   Meigs doc    • Meigs Field sequence from "One Six Right" ...   Building Chicago's parks    • Behind the Scenes of Curating "From Swamps...   WTTW City in a garden history https://news.wttw.com/2012/12/13/city... VK Brown    • Chicago Film Institute V K Brown, Parks Di...   More https://www.pgpedia.com/b/virgil-k-brown Jane Addams documentary    • Jane Addams: Together We Rise — A Chicago ...   Forest Preserves    • Coming May 2016 - Chicago’s True Nature: T...