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American Experience: Season 15

15x04 Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun
TV-PG

  • 2003-01-15T02:00:00Z on PBS
  • 55m
  • United States
  • English
  • Documentary
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 2 covers the 1870s and '80s, when the city's can-do business leaders found themselves increasingly at odds with labor. The episode profiles meatpacker Augustus Swift; sleeping-car magnate George Pullman, who established what he hoped would become a utopian workers community; and merchant prince Marshall Field, who had no such notions. Then there were the anarchists.
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