Find out more about the people and events featured in the film.

People:

• Jane Addams
• Philip Armour
• Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
• The Everleigh Sisters
• Marshall Field
• Carter Harrison
• Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet
• Cyrus McCormick
• William Butler Ogden
• Bertha Palmer
• Potter Palmer
• George Pullman
• Louis Sullivan
• Aaron Montgomery Ward
• Ida Wells
• Capitalists, Con Men, and Quality Control
• Charles Hutchinson and the Art Institute
• Theodore Thomas and the Chicago Symphony
• William Harper and the University of Chicago

Events:

• The Chicago Fire of 1871
• The Haymarket Affair
• The Illinois and Michigan Canal
• World's Columbian Exposition - the Court of Honor
• World's Columbian Exposition - the Midway