American Experience - Season 15 Episode 5
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.
First Air Date : 1988-10-04
Last Air date : 2025-03-25
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
- Season 15 : Episode 12002-11-11
- Season 15 : Episode 22002-11-12
- Season 15 : Episode 32003-01-13
- Season 15 : Episode 42003-01-14
- Season 15 : Episode 52003-01-15
- Season 15 : Episode 62003-01-20
- Season 15 : Episode 72003-01-27
- Season 15 : Episode 82003-02-10
- Season 15 : Episode 92003-02-24
- Season 15 : Episode 102003-04-07
- Season 15 : Episode 112003-04-21
- Season 15 : Episode 122003-07-07
- Season 15 : Episode 132003-07-14
