Visit the interactive website to view and learn more: https://www.wttw.com/river
Documentary sections:
00:00:00 Introduction
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 Grandstand Tower
00:09:34 333 N. Michigan Avenue
00:10:10 Chicago River Bridges
00:11:59 Wacker Walk
00:12:54 Trump International Hotel and Tower
00:14:08 AMA Square
00:15:15 Marina City
00:17:30 Commodity market
00:18:26 Pointe du Loup
00:19:09 333 W. Wacker Drive/Hotel Sauganash
00:20:32 River tip
00:21:11 150 N. Riverside
00:22:08 Boeing Building
00:22:39 Samuel Insull/Civic Opera
00:25:29 Chicago Enwave Ice Plant
00:25:54 Post office
00:26:58 Sears Tower (now Willis Tower)
00:29:16 Portage of Chicago
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 town
00:48:03 River line
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 Botanical Garden
00:53:47 Skokie Lagoons
00:54:58 Edgebrook
00:55:35 Bohemian National Cemetery
00:56:27 North Shore Canal
00:58:28 Bahá'í House of Worship
01:00:41 Grebe and Company shipyard
01:01:09 Riverview Park
01:01:56 Houses by Julia C. Lathrop
01:02:31 Lincoln Park
01:03:15 Goose Island
01:04:38 Montgomery District
01:06:14 North River
01:08:42 Great Chicago Flood of 1992
01:10:44 River walk
01:12:43 River walk: pier
01:14:09 Friends of the Chicago River
01:16:26 Eastland disaster
01:18:04 River walk: 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 Les Sables/Streerville
01:24:38 Central Illinois
01:25:56 Natalie DuBois
01:27:09 Chicago River dyed green/St. St. Patrick's Day
01:27:46 Centennial Fountain
01:28:21 Aqua Tower/Lakeshore East
01:29:32 Ogden Slide
01:30:10 Walk by the lake
01:31:46 Lake Michigan/Navy Pier
Please take the opportunity to connect and share this video with your friends and family if you find it useful.
