The Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer

Video Description

In the epic drama that is Chicago’s history, the Chicago River has played many roles, by turns hero, villain, and underdog. The most iconic river scenes lie near the river’s confluence with Lake Michigan, the junction that gave rise to the city itself, where skyscrapers now exalt the river’s banks and form a spectacular canyon of stunning architecture. Visit the interactive website to see and learn much more: https://www.wttw.com/river Documentary Sections: 00:00:00 ➤ Intro 00:02:18 ➤ The First Settlers: Jean Baptiste Point DuSable 00:04:31 ➤ Fort Dearborn 00:05:42 ➤ Wrigley Building 00:07:12 ➤ London Guarantee Building 00:08:05 ➤ Tribune Tower 00:09:34 ➤ 333 N. Michigan Avenue 00:10:10 ➤ The Chicago River's Bridges 00:11:59 ➤ Wacker Drive 00:12:54 ➤ Trump International Hotel and Tower 00:14:08 ➤ AMA Plaza 00:15:15 ➤ Marina City 00:17:30 ➤ Merchandise Mart 00:18:26 ➤ Wolf Point 00:19:09 ➤ 333 W. Wacker Drive/Sauganash Hotel 00:20:32 ➤ River Point 00:21:11 ➤ 150 N. Riverside 00:22:08 ➤ Boeing Building 00:22:39 ➤ Samuel Insull/Civic Opera House 00:25:29 ➤ Enwave Chicago Ice Factory 00:25:54 ➤ Post Office 00:26:58 ➤ Sears Tower (Now Willis Tower) 00:29:16 ➤ Chicago Portage 00:31:17 ➤ Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal 00:32:27 ➤ How Chicago Reversed Its River 00:35:24 ➤ Illinois and Michigan Canal 00:36:15 ➤ Bridgeport 00:37:09 ➤ Union Stockyards/Bubbly Creek 00:39:20 ➤ Pilsen 00:42:29 ➤ Chinatown 00:46:49 ➤ River City 00:48:03 ➤ Riverline 00:48:26 ➤ O'Leary Family Barn/Great Chicago Fire 00:51:37 ➤ Geoffrey Baer's Childhood Home/Trail Tree Park 00:53:03 ➤ Chicago Botanic Garden 00:53:47 ➤ Skokie Lagoons 00:54:58 ➤ Edgebrook 00:55:35 ➤ Bohemian National Cemetery 00:56:27 ➤ North Shore Channel 00:58:28 ➤ Baháʼí House of Worship 01:00:41 ➤ Grebe and Company Shipyard 01:01:09 ➤ Riverview Park 01:01:56 ➤ Julia C. Lathrop Homes 01:02:31 ➤ Lincoln Park 01:03:15 ➤ Goose Island 01:04:38 ➤ Montgomery Ward's 01:06:14 ➤ River North 01:08:42 ➤ Great Chicago Flood of 1992 01:10:44 ➤ Riverwalk 01:12:43 ➤ Riverwalk: Jetty 01:14:09 ➤ Friends of the Chicago River 01:16:26 ➤ Eastland Disaster 01:18:04 ➤ Riverwalk: River Theater/111. W. Wacker Drive 01:19:43 ➤ Riverwalk: Cove and Marina/Leo Burnett Building 01:20:58 ➤ Vietnam Memorial/Jewelers Building 01:22:12 ➤ Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist 01:22:34 ➤ The Sands/Streeterville 01:24:38 ➤ Illinois Center 01:25:56 ➤ Natalie DuBois 01:27:09 ➤ Chicago River Dyed Green/St. Patrick's Day 01:27:46 ➤ Centennial Fountain 01:28:21 ➤ Aqua Tower/Lakeshore East 01:29:32 ➤ Ogden Slip 01:30:10 ➤ Lake Shore Drive 01:31:46 ➤ Lake Michigan/Navy Pier