TV season
2008-02-06
Air date 2008
Episode 1
2008-02-06 • 90 min
Some are mysterious, some are beautiful and some are just plain bizarre! Geoffrey Baer takes you all over the Chicago region in search of often-overlooked fragments of our history. Many are in places you pass by every day. But when you learn their hidden stories you're sure to say "I never knew that!"
Episode 2
2008-04-11 • 90 min
Join Geoffrey Baer on this engaging tour program, covering Chicago's historic Western suburbs. Highlights include Brookfield Zoo, Frank Lloyd Wright architectural treasures, and much more He takes you on a fascinating trek through 25 communities including Naperville, Cicero, and Wheaton. So sit back, relax, and ride along with Geoffery Baer as he explores the Western suburbs.
Episode 3
2008-10-15 • 90 min
Join us for a journey along our most famous front yard. Chicago's lakefront is unique in the world. It's a seventeen-mile-long people's paradise that belongs to all of us. WTTW's popular on-air host, producer and Chicago Architecture Foundation docent Geoffrey Baer explores Chicago's Lakefront. Chicago's Lakefront originally premiered just a month before the start of the 100th anniversary year of Daniel Burnham's great Plan of Chicago, which transformed the lakefront into an unbroken ribbon of public parks.
