4 Season
75 Episode
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
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: BBC Two
- Keyword: train, railroad
- Director:
- Cast: Michael Portillo
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