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This is a delightful adventure with a wide range of meaningful construction. One of the treasures of this presentation is Geoffrey Baer himself. For many, many years, he has educated us and shared his unabashed love for and appreciation of the Chicago area. Thank you, Mr. Baer.

Im from La Paz Bolivia but this city is fascinating. So many movies, its culture. I hope I could visit Chicago someday 😊

Absolutely love these Geoffrey Baer Chicago documentaries! Keep ‘‘em coming!

After visiting Chicago for over 50 years, I'm pleasantly surprised on how many new places were shown in this video. Great work!

I love the Garfield Park Conservatory, I grew up only a few blocks away.

So excellent!

The best and nicest host of chicago and a cubs fan as well😊

So many hidden gems in Chicago.

So glad there are more of these coming out. My favorite was the Chicago Loop documentary well done Geoffrey

Another winner from Geoffrey Baer! Surprising highlight, (spolier alert) watching Geoffrey scale a wall from one of the sites visited. 😉

Beautiful. Just beautiful. Just got back from this amazing city and each time I get my first glimpse of the skyline my heart begins to race. Thank you Geoffrey, for providing so much interesting history of this and the diverse neighboring communities in your ongoing video presentations.

Planning a trip to Chicago in the next few months. This helps. Thanks.

Will be there next week! Can’t wait

the Chicago Cultural center was left out. I love the stone work of domes. Just goes to show how many beautiful gems there are in Chicago. Really enjoyed the presentation.

I attended Our Lady of Sorrows grammar school in the early - mid 70's. I hope to visit the church again eventually. Thanks for including it, this year marks the 150th anniversary of the church.

I worked in the Rookery from 1978-83. The law firm I worked for had offices along the southern half of the west wall and the south wall on the 7th floor. I don't recall any roof being in place at the top of the center. The glass roof over the first two floors of the lobby was painted an off-white color. The urns were there by the stairway, but I don't recall there ever being anything in them. The outside was black with soot and had a chemically induce patina. It was sandblasted during the 1990s and we now see the original red color. The elevators were run by union elevator operators. I often used the beautiful stairway to walk up and down rather than take the elevators. From the third floor and up the stairway was a stunning curved semi-circular column. Also, in the hall out side the south part of the office were old vaults that the firm used for file storage. As the office clerk part of my job was to retrieve and replace the files in those vaults. They were airless little steel boxes. I always worried that a door my close and lock me in. But I always loved the beauty of the building and have fond memories of the place and the people I knew there.

This is so good, amazing level of production, thank you!

Wonderful

35:00 BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Bartlett, IL

I LOVE💕Chicago! 🍀with Geoffrey Baer! 🐻 ❤️🙏😘💐

I hope this will be available on DVD

Thank you 😊

There are 2 kinds of cities: 1 - Chicago 2 - Cities that wish they were Chicago There are 2 kinds of people: 1 - Chicagoans 2 - People who dream of living in Chicago Namaste

29:27 Duncan’s Toy Chest

No mention of the Wrigley Building? Or the Auditorium Building, or the Cultural Center Building?

I wonder which building came first the one in Taipei that has the same type of shape… They look like basically take away Chinese food boxes stacked on top of each other… Which is basically the same shape… Which one came first? I know the one in Taipei is supposed to be I think the second tallest now that the one in, Saudi Arabia is number one… Not that it matters… But that building in that country is pretty spectacular as well… Building tallness doesn’t mean anything… Really it doesn’t matter one of the most beautiful buildings in the world is near the black sea, I think… Designed by a British architect, some of the most beautiful curves in Lines and it’s not a tall building,it looks like an airplane tail mixed with some curves. It’s damn beautiful… One of the most interesting buildings I’ve ever seen in my life… But we also have some great ones here.

ST REGIS TOWER LOOKS LIKE IT WAS MADE OF "MELTING SCULPY"

Another eye sore skyscraper

Lightfoots former office?

And it’s not just public works of architecture… You see these homes in Chicago, these McMansions… A giant house and a tiny half acre lot… Using cheaper brick, cheaper windows, poor architecture, just so they can have the biggest house on the block compared to everyone else’s 1950s, 60s and 70s bungalows/apartment buildings… Why? it actually makes you look cheap… When you build a house so large that it is out of proportion with the lot, and you do minimal landscaping, and you seem to care more about how many black Mercedes, Audi or BMW cars you can park in your driveway, instead of spending money on high-quality brick, good windows and quality architecture… I don’t get it… It makes no sense to me… You don’t need 5000-8000 ft.² I would rather have a beautiful 3000 square-foot split level home, even pre-fabricated homes are better than these McMansions, even the Huff houses from Germany looks so much better in glass and steel… And for under $500,000 they can put up a new house in less than a month… And it looks a hell of a lot better than what is noticed owners are doing with her giant 8000 square-foot cheap looking monstrosity.

The "Now Leaving" sign is the most beautiful thing in that s__thole