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Chicago: City of the Century

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Chicago: City of the Century Season 1, Episode 2: The Revolution Has Begun

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From the railroads to Marshall Field's department store to Cyrus McCormick's reaper factory to the stockyards, workers struggle for their share of a new industrial capitalism. The Haymarket Affair becomes the most sensational labor incident of the 19th century. Watch Chicago: City of the Century Season 1, Episode 2 The Revolution Has Begun in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of Chicago: City of the Century Season 1, Episode 2 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

3 episodes
Miniseries
1

Mudhole to Metropolis

Chicago's location at the end of a canal linking the Mississippi to New York makes it attractive to Yankee speculators as well as Irish laborers. In just a few decades, the remote fur trading post explodes into the metropolis of the West. Not even the great fire of 1871 can slow the city's development.

87 min
2

The Revolution Has Begun

From the railroads to Marshall Field's department store to Cyrus McCormick's reaper factory to the stockyards, workers struggle for their share of a new industrial capitalism. The Haymarket Affair becomes the most sensational labor incident of the 19th century.

87 min
3

Battle for Chicago

Chicago develops the world's first skyscraper downtown, with a unique American architectural style. In its shadows are gambling, prostitution, corruption, poverty, and disease. In 1893 Chicago's business elite hosts a World's Fair, proudly showing 27 million visitors a glistening, sanitized city of the future.

84 min