Docs & Dialogue: Chicago Time Machine

Docs & Dialogue: Chicago Time Machine (Condit Branch)
Thursday,July 16th, 3:00 p.m.

Have you ever wished you could travel back in time anduncover the history of the very ground beneath your feet? That’s exactly whatWTTW host Geoffrey Baer does in Chicago Time Machine, peeling backlayers of fascinating stories from all over Chicagoland, going back as far as14,000 years. From a notorious vice district south of the Loop, where crookedward bosses went by names like Bathhouse John and Hinky Dink, to Wicker Park atthe end of the Ice Age when prehistoric giant beavers roamed freely, this isChicago history like you have never quite seen it. Along the way, Baer uncoversa World War II aircraft engine plant that now houses a mall and makes TootsieRolls, a decommissioned limestone quarry retrofitted as a neighborhood fishingpond, and a quiet River North alley where four notorious executions took placein 1887. Every corner of this city has a story, and most of them are strangerthan fiction.
This free program is open to the public. It isapproximately 1 hour and 22 minutes, not rated and made possible through PBS.