Great American Railroad Journeys - Season 2 Episode 16 Chicago, The Windy City
Michael Portillo is blown away by the skyscrapers in Illinois's Windy City, where he discovers how modern Chicago's skyline replaced a largely wooden city, destroyed in a great fire shortly before his Appleton's Guide was published. Training with the city's firefighters, Michael learns today's fire department respond to half a million emergency calls a year.
Michael steps up to the plate with the Joliet Slammers, stars of the US national game of baseball, then sings for his supper at a quintessentially American restaurant bearing his name! Downtown at the Moody Church, Michael tracks down a pair of evangelists who toured Britain and the United States by rail at the time of his Guide.
Year: 2020
Genre: Documentary
Country: United Kingdom
Studio: BBC Two
Director:
Cast: Michael Portillo
First Air Date: Feb 01, 2016
Last Air date: Mar 28, 2020
Season: 4 Season
Episode: 75 Episode
Runtime: 29 minutes
IMDb: 9.00/10 by 1.00 users
Popularity: 4.748
Language: English
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St Louis, Missouri
St Louis to Jefferson City, Missouri
Sedalia to Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City to St Joseph, Missouri
Lawrence to Topeka, Kansas
Dodge City to Lamar, Colorado
La Junta, Colorado, to Pueblo, New Mexico
Canon City, Colorado, to Colorado Springs
Santa Fe to Acoma, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico, to the Grand Canyon, Arizona
The Twin Cities, St Paul
The Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Red Wing, Minnesota, to La Crosse, Wisconsin
Tomah to Portage, Wisconsin
Milwaukee to Racine, Wisconsin
Chicago, The Windy City
Chicago, US Rail Hub
Homewood to Champaign, Illinois
Mattoon, Illinois to Columbus, Kentucky
Memphis, Tennessee