Chicago's Loop: A New Walking Tour with Geoffrey Baer

[@seeatlanta1408]

when i see a full length piece on Chicago narrated by Geoffrey Baer I IMMEDIATELY click!!!

[@StephanieHughesDesign]

Same here.

[@StephanieHughesDesign]

This video and all that Geoffrey and WTTW have produced about Chicago are just exquisite. I miss living in Chicago and would like to return, living in the Loop or the North side, like I did for 10 years or more. It just does not get any better. There is everything to love about Geoffrey and WTTW. 2 of Chicago's legends.

[@nathanas64]

Geoffrey Baer’s documentaries are the BEST. Not just educational but entertaining at the same time !

[@namwob7]

My husband and I have been enjoying all these videos during dinner. I grew up just outside the city, and went to school at Roosevelt U. I remember the Loop of my childhood and then as an adult. I worked downtown and then on Michigan Av for about a decade. I married my husband who was an executive at The Ritz Hotel in the 70s. We married, and ultimately moved to his home state of Virginia. These videos are so educational and fun. It makes me want to find time to pay a visit.

[@princissbexenlatrapp6191]

Being from the city I absolutely loved this in entirety.

[@jreid2171]

Same here I love these documentary please do more

[@mmrgratitudes]

Grew up in downtown Chicago. This was an awesome tour. Thank you for sharing ❤

[@dbeaus]

Number one city datum was on the Illinois Real Estate test. I got to go onto the floor of the Board of Trade with a trader that I did work for on his buildings. I can't explain the noise or the chaos of the trading floor. Everything was done with hand signals because you couldn't hear the person next to you. And it was rough. Lots of pushing and shoving for position. The floor was not for the faint of heart. I miss Chicago, never boring, always moving forward. I am glad I was raised there. Besides the problems, the city will survive and come out better. It always has. As usual, another well done, thoroughly researched piece of information by Mr. Baer.

[@margueritebrainerd86]

Love these Chicago videos. One day I’ll get to be there.

[@paulakpacente]

I worked in The Old Colony building on and off from 1975 until about 1986. When I first started, they had elevator operators except for 1 automated elevator. The ladies room---which I believe was on the 8th floor was mostly marble with pull-chain toilets. It was staffed during working hours with a woman who could sew. She also had aspirin and a first-aid kit. The first floor boasted a great restaurant and a shop that carried nail kits in genuine leather cases. I still have one of the nail kits which contained the BEST set of tweezers I've EVER owned. When one entered the building, it was like stepping back in time. I LOVED it. When I worked there the building was coal black from all of the coal heating systems in those old buildings. I understand that after they cleaned the structure they found that the shell was built with yellow brick. It starts in this video at about 9 minutes. What a happy memory! I also spent many hours in the Fisher and Monadnock buildings. I'll never forget those times...

[@justdrive5327]

I love Chicago. Best clean city in America

[@Bob-te3le]

By far.

[@embersdestiny]

Great job! love it! I like that you used "docent", it is a rare word I hear these days and have been told I was making up a word by friends years ago when I used it with them, lol.

[@dbii6349]

Really excellent and informative

[@ramencurry6672]

This should out on DVD and theaters

[@helenmattes7259]

Another tour you might consider are Chicago’s Catholic Churches. For example, St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish on Noble and Division Streets is the first Polish Church. It is beautiful and is on the historic registry. There are many other beautiful churches to explore. I greatly enjoy your videos. Obviously I am a native Chicagoan and am blessed to have grown up there.

[@judithgrace9850]

Corpus Christi.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Lived in this area for 13 years. St Stanislaus Kostka is a beautiful church. There are others within walking distance that are even more notable. St.Mary of the Angels, St.John Cantius and others. There are many lovely Catholic churches in Chicago. See them before the archdiocese decides to close them.

[@oneworldawakening]

Thank you for this excellent video essay.

[@TheSeanm102]

what a great and informative video thanks for the upload

[@orfy123]

I'm loving these in depth studies of Chicago. I'm glad I chose to spend time there instead of just flying in and out. I chose Washington DC and Chicago. over NY and LA.

[@jacked-666]

So much beautiful architecture.

[@alextomahawk139]

Oh how I want to visit Chicago. A city full of history.

[@gandydancer823]

I have to watch this episode here because I cannot find it on Passport

[@jasonallen3678]

Wow I didn't know about Roosevelt University righteous history and that's why I'm addicted to these videos.

[@cameronroberts2961]

I love this!!

[@Bob-te3le]

Chicago is the greatest city in the country if not the world.

[@lindaloe]

I Agree!!

[@rose415]

Any info about hotel Roosevelt at Wabash and Roosevelt?

[@briansieve]

I love the Monadnock building

[@lilybud]

Form follows function. Less is more.

[@meerkatmanorjr.2085]

I would kms for Geoffrey Baer 🙏 a GEM

[@TimVeatch]

57:40 Spaceship 1:02:17 Brian Wilson

[@franzdoreza5230]

One of the most beautiful facades anywhere is going to be used by Target?! Ugh.. Nordstrom’s, Neiman Marcus, Macy’s, I mean come on seriously… They couldn’t do any better? That’s a Place made for a luxury store…

[@franzdoreza5230]

The Picasso sculpture, to me, looks like a horse… Perhaps the head of Pegasus… But it also has the image of a human face if you see it from a different angle so that’s basically Picassos three-dimensional “Cubist“ sculpture… Still my favorite artist… Because he was never afraid to challenge himself and continue evolving no matter what other people thought.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

The city should have landmarked the wonderful Beaux Arte Federal Building destroyed in 1965. It gave Chicago a presence of civic gravitas and importance not conveyed by the office slabs designed by Mies. I would walk by the Federal Plaza quite often when I resided in the South Loop, and would never linger in the plaza. While fully comprehending his credo, intentions and vision, I find most of Mies' work as cold, barren and sterile. His dictum of " less is more," was imitated with cheap knock offs ad nauseum in cities all over the world. His buildings give a deadening effect, whether it's the skyline or more crucially, on street level. In his quest for simplicity and "purity," his buildings are not welcoming nor street friendly. Is it any wonder then that Mies' Chicago residence was a traditional building.

[@bilgierichard1872]

I wonder does the city regret having so many beautiful vintage buildings torn down

[@CB-vg1wq]

Yes, Chicago regrets.

[@chrisschepper9312]

Edinburgh, Scotland was where skyscrapers were born.

[@lindaloe]

Really?

[@sierrajohnson7300]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Bob-te3le]

​@@lindaloeNope , Chicago is Birthplace of Skyscrapers.

[@JS-iy4zb]

What’s the deal with the Islamic center and it’s architecture? You didn’t say anything about the building it’s in. Just the tiles.

[@UR_Right24]

It's just too bad the Home Insurance building was torn down. That was an important landmark. So many east coast and west coast people dismiss Chicago as some boring midwestern flyover city in a flyover state of a flyover part of the country, without knowing the critical importance of its history as it pertains to the rest of the country and the world.

[@lindaloe]

Boring ? If Anyone Thinks Of Chicago As Being Boring Are Full Of It!!😂

[@DTM-Books]

You know things are bad when a sentence starts with "So how did Trump steal..." and you have no idea where the conversation is going. Also, can somebody please tear down the letters from that building? What is this stupid city waiting for?

[@jasonallen3678]

Henry Sullivan sounds like a true American hero by not bootlicking off European architecture.

[@bogdan78pop]

Yeah...that's how hospitals ,and where people go to die , look like in Europe...!!!!

[@ДмитрийДепутатов]

Williams Larry Williams George Anderson Steven

[@danielmarsala849]

MOO!

[@danielmarsala849]

You're the eponymous tour guide.

[@survivingchicago5797]

I have an idea for the next WTTW fundraising drive, everyone who contributes $600 or more will receive a bulletproof vest! guys it’s a great idea you could have WTTW supporter embroidered on the back and front of it🥰

[@danielmarsala849]

N.Y.C.

[@louiekiwi]

Where are the thousands of homeless people living in tents, you missed those streets. That's the reality, this is fantasy.

[@azlr.h1376]

The reason Chicago is the most infested crime city is, the last projects that are still standing near by. They need to be removed and sent south, not south side, but south to Mississippi..!! We also have learned to use this racial card all to well, instead working and

[@judithgrace9850]

Get ready to stand long line, when the bank runs start here. ATMs empty, and cash at the store etc. Just move. I moved to Mexico at 79, because USA is too expensive and deadly.

[@Bob-te3le]

Yeah Mexico ain't deadly at all 😂😢😅.