Chicago Lifted Itself Out of the Mud | The Entire History

How did the worst place for a city become the third-largest city in America? Chicago was built on a swamp, burned to the ground, jacked its own buildings out of the mud, and made its river run backward. This is the entire history of Chicago, from a six-mile portage through the mud in 1673 to the skyline you see today. Chapters: 0:00 Chicago jacked up its own hotels 0:50 Six Miles of Mud 2:47 The Trader and the Fort 5:57 A Town Sold by the Acre 8:34 The City on Jacks 11:54 Butcher to a Nation 13:42 The Great Fire 17:15 Higher Than the Ashes 22:11 The River Runs Backward 24:48 The Ship at the Dock 28:25 Gangsters, the Atom, and the Peak 32:37 Chicago Today 34:07 Finale Tell us in the comments: what would you give Chicago its fifth star for? And which city should we rebuild next? Visuals: AI reconstructions are illustrations of places and moments that were never photographed. Archive photographs, engravings and maps are public domain (Library of Congress, National Archives, Newberry Library, Wikimedia Commons). Modern footage: Pixabay. Photo credits (CC BY): Lake Shore Drive from above, Flickr user de*, CC BY 2.0 DuSable Bridge, ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0 Site of Fort Dearborn landmark, ANtietamcreek, CC BY 4.0 Chicago Riverwalk, Roman Boed, CC BY 2.0 Clark Street Bridge, Chris Rycroft, CC BY 2.0 Eastland commemorative sign, David Wilson, CC BY 2.0 African-American family, South Chicago, 1922, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, CC BY 4.0 Site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Stephen Hogan, CC BY 2.0 Chicago Skyline at Dusk, Tony Webster, CC BY 2.0 All via Wikimedia Commons. License texts: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Photos by Hossam M. Omar, Forrest Chai and Esra Afşar on Unsplash. #history #chicago #documentary