Monday, April 23, 2007

Northwest of Chicago: from farm fields to boomtowns

did anyone else happen to catch the new Geoffrey Baer/WTTW chicago history documentary last night? as i'm sure you all know, Mr. Baer is the same guy who did the other WTTW chicago documentaries such as the loop walking tour, the chicago river tour, the lakefront tour, the "L" neighborhood tour, the north shore tour, and the south suburban tour. well, his newest program premiered last night, titled "Northwest of Chicago: from farm fields to boomtowns". it primarily featured the suburbs from park ridge northwest along the I-90 corridor and the surrounding area ending up all the way out in woodstock.

once again, Mr. Baer has produced an excellent television program, shedding more light on the history and development of our chicagoland region. i don't know why but i find these programs to be very engaging. during the evening he also mentioned some future programs that are in the works right now. first up is a series about the history of all the fox river cities and towns, then a program on the western suburbs, then a program about the suburbs along the milwaukee avenue corridor, then the southwest suburbs and finally he spoke of redoing the chicago river tour epsiode several years down the road, as much is changing along the river, as we already know *cough*trump*cough*.

so anyone else see the program? if so, what did you think of it?>

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