Known for its sizzling Monday-night jam sessions and impressive weekend marquee, the Chicago stage at Buddy Guy's Legends (owned by its celebrated namesake) has played host to some of the most talented blues artists in the world. This installment of the Chicago Blues Jam series features memorable performances by the award-winning Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers and the funk-tinged Blues Instigators.

Chicago's Metra commuter rail system carries upwards of 300,000 passengers a day. The film presents an up-close look at Metra's 12 routes, the downtown stations in Chicago, the famous "Zephyr Pit" repair center and historic Tower A-2. The program also visits some areas of the system normally off limits to the public.

Join us for a journey along our most famous front yard. The eyes of the world were on Chicago's Lakefront on election night 2008 as tens of thousands of people gathered there to celebrate with President-Elect Barack Obama. 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 will re-trace his steps in Chicago's Lakefront, an all-new documentary tour shot in High Definition. Chicago's Lakefront debuted on WTTW11 and WTTWD on December 1 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.

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Part 2 (of three) of "Chicago: City of the Century" covers the 1870s and '80s, when the city's can-do business leaders found themselves increasingly at odds with labor. The episode profiles meatpacker Augustus Swift; sleeping-car magnate George Pullman, who established what he hoped would become a utopian workers community; and merchant prince Marshall Field, who had no such notions. Then there were the anarchists. Based on the book by historian Donald L. Miller.

Summaries "The John Wayne Gacy Murders: Life and Death in Chicago", Focuses on serial killer John Wayne Gacy's time in Chicago and includes information about Gacy's childhood, his career of crime in Waterloo, Iowa, and Gacy's becoming a celebrity in prison. Containing interviews with Chicago attorneys, news reporters, law enforcement officers, and history experts, the film illustrates what the atmosphere was like in Chicago when Gacy was murdering and ultimately apprehended. Gacy's time in prison as a celebrity serial killer is also explored in this groundbreaking film by Chicago native filmmaker John Borowski. —John Borowski

This film series is produced by Fugazi's Brendan Canty and is directed by filmmaker Christoph Green. It features live performances by Wilco, Shellac, Tortoise, Freakwater, The Ponys, Lonesome Organist, Tight Phantomz, Red Eyed Legends, and Pit er Pat, and was recorded, mixed, and curated by producer and Shellac member Bob Weston. In between the bands lay shots of the band setting up and portraits of some of the cooler aspects of the 100 year old house in Chicago that the DVD was recorded in. The final demolition sequence laying waste to the day's events is a matter of minutes. Extras include extended slide show of stills of the bands and 5.1 mix.

Welcome to Chicago is an intimate look at one of the city's most exciting bands. See Mat, Greg, Jon, Dan & Garret as they perform a sold-out homecoming show at the legendary Metro Club. Follow the band as they record their major label debut 'For Never & Ever', and as they experience the highs and lows of touring the country. See exclusive interviews and five music videos.

The three parts of Chicago: City of the Century

There was no Chicago in the early nineteenth century. There was a fortification that shortly afterwards was set on fire by Indians. Later, the stormy expansion of a settlement began, which became a center of immigrant workers, classical industry, and slaughterhouses (Bertolt Brecht) and, in 1941, military armaments. The Windy City on Lake Michigan is the fastest changing city in the world. The time-lapse shots with the 35mm Arriflex film camera are commented on by classic techno cuts and information about the tunnels under Chicago, the slaughterhouses, organized crime, the Sears and Roebuck catalogs, and other features of this strange city.

Short documentary about the House Music movement in Chicago, featuring DJ, Frankie Knuckles and music group, JM Silk. This is filmed at their record release party at the Powerhouse Nightclub in Chicago in 1986.

The 1989 Chicago Cubs were not exactly the favorites to win the National League East championship. Fourth place finishers the season before, there seemed little hope beyond that for '89. But something magical and wonderful happened in 1989: Don Zimmer's team believed in itself and started winning. With a combination of youth and experience, coupled with a daring style of play, they simply went out and beat the favorites. This is the story of that team, and how they caught the imagination of Chicago and the country and became known as "THE BOYS OF ZIMMER."

In celebration of their 35+ year career, this new live album, featuring all their classic and most recent hits, sees the band at the top of their game, delivering a superb performance not to be missed! Recorded May 7, 2016 concert at the the House Of Blues in Chicago, Illinois.

Fountains Of Wayne breeze into the Windy City with their warm, feel-good vibe, unleashing the hooks and humor that have made them champions of power pop. For the band's first-ever live DVD, fans are treated to a career-defining set with punchy performances of their hits including "Stacy's Mom," "Sink To The Bottom" and "Radiation Vibe." Having perfected the sounds of summer buzz with tight rhythms, carefree melodies and humor-laced lyrics, the indie pop quartet takes the stage in prime form, knocking out favorite after favorite. This concert was shot in a widescreen format and recorded in 5.1 Surround to provide an electrifying home viewing experience. Next to actually attending a Fountains show, as any fan will tell you, there's No Better Place to see them. Bonus features: all-new, never-before-seen acoustic performances of songs from their 2007 album, Traffic and Weather, and more.

The 2005 Chicago White Sox finally put it all together in the same season-incredible pitching, timely hitting, superb management and an unselfish, all-around team effort and finally the second longest championship drought in baseball history (88 years) comes to an end with a bold exclamation point at the end of a dramatic sweep of the Houston Astros to clinch that elusive World Series trophy.

Having waited 49 years, the diehard fans of the Chicago Blackhawks would have to agonize a few moments more: Was Patrick Kane's shot really in the net? Had the Stanley Cup finally returned to Chicago? In this case, great things came to those who waited. Kane's shot 4:06 into overtime had indeed entered the net, giving the Blackhawks their first Cup since 1961 and touching off a celebration that moved from the ice of Philadelphia's Wachovia Center to the jam-packed streets of downtown Chicago to the cities and towns around the globe that Hawks players call home. This unforgettable moment and many more from five games critical to the Blackhawks championship run have now been collected in one place: the Chicago Blackhawks Stanley Cup Champions Special Edition Box Set

Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago (2009, 109 min) is a documentary on LGBTQ life in Chicago from 1934 to 1974. Moving from the speakeasys and Henry Gerber’s founding of the Society for Human Rights in the 1930s, to the underground social structure of the 1940s and 1950s, to the dawn of consciousness-raising entities such as the Daughters of Bilitis and Mattachine Midwest in the 1960’s, and concluding with the emergence of the gay liberation movement with the first Pride March and opening of the first community center in the early 1970s.

A series of psychic readings of spaces, commissioned by the artist in an attempt at connecting with the past of domestic or exhibition spaces, despite the limitations of rational discourse. The video is not edited, respecting the actual duration of the performance.