Season 1, Episode 15

The New City

Air Date: 2000-04-08

Overview: Miller explores the tension between the messy vitality of cities that grow on their own and those where orderly growth is planned. Chicago – with Hull House, the World's Columbian Exposition, the new female workforce, the skyscraper, the department store, and unfettered capitalism – is the place to watch a new world in the making at the turn of the century.

Runtime: 26 minutes