Geoffrey Baer Movies

10 Buildings that Changed America presents 10 trend-setting works of architecture that have shaped and inspired our American landscape. These...

Documentary showing some of the partially hidden history and art in the city of Chicago.

In an area barely ten square blocks, Geoffrey Baer traces the history of the skyscraper in the city where it was born. What makes a city, a city? Is...

Did a UFO fly over O’Hare Airport? How did the alligator later named "Chance the Snapper" suddenly appear in Chicago’s Humboldt Lagoon?...

For generations, seemingly all paths led through Chicago as trains carrying passengers, livestock, and freight crisscrossed the country. In a new...

Geoffrey Baer is back to traverse the length and breadth of Chicago’s world-famous “front yard” to explore everything from beloved...

The story of the South Side of Chicago is a story of immigrants and of migrants, of workers and unions, of political dynasties and sports legacies,...

It's a journey that starts at Blarney Island, a rowdy bar in the middle of a lake accessible only by boat, and ends sixty miles down the Fox River at...

Follow Geoffrey Baer on a heartwarming, nostalgic, and humorous journey as he tells the story of Hanukkah, exploring the time-honored traditions of...

Join Geoffrey Baer for his newest engaging Chicago tour program, which covers Chicago's historic Western suburbs. Highlights include Brookfield Zoo,...

Since it opened as Municipal Pier in 1916, Navy Pier has been evolving in response to the changing needs of a city on a Great Lake—Chicago....

In the epic drama that is Chicago’s history, the Chicago River has played many roles, by turns hero, villain, and underdog. The most iconic...

When your family piled into the car for a vacation, where did you go? Starved Rock? Lake Geneva? The Dells? Maybe the Indiana Dunes? Or...

Ten American homes designed by visionary architects, their eclectic clients and current homeowners are highlighted. Each home combined form, function...

It's a part of Chicago that's full of surprises. It's home to a 28-square-mile forest with a rock canyon. It's where one of the Blues Brothers did...

Chicago is known, famously, as “the city that works.” But who keeps it working? In a new 60-minute special, CHICAGO WORKS, Geoffrey Baer...

In this sequel to WTTW's popular Hidden Chicago special, Geoffrey Baer explores dusty attics, deep tunnels and the candy aisle at Walgreen's in...