American Experience - Season 15 - Eps 4: Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun

Name: Eps 4: Chicago: City of the Century (2): The Revolution Has Begun
Released: 2003-01-14
Rating: 3.7

2003-01-14 • 55 min • ⭐ 7.4/10

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.