The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago with Geoffrey Baer - Full Show

In "The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago," Geoffrey Baer takes us on a tour of the most breathtaking locations in and around Chicago. From towering skyscrapers and lovely parks, to important art and ornate houses of worship, explore the stories behind the beauty.
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
02:04 St. Regis Tower with Jeanne Gang
07:13 Tribune Tower
11:07 Hotel InterContinental, Manhattan Building
12:20 El Centro with Juan Gabriel Moreno
15:43 Art on theMart with Nick Cave
19:10 Repurposed Parks with Ernie Wong (Palmisano Park, Ping Tom Park)
24:30 Steelworkers Park with Roman Villarreal
29:15 The Rookery with Blair Kamin
33:10 Macy's Tiffany Mosaic Ceiling, Elk's Memorial, South Shore Cultural Center
34:49 BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Chicago
37:29 Houses of Worship
42:10 Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple

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[@abelsietecuatro9249]

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

[@richardgrayson6638]

Please do!!

[@reallyhorrorblereviews]

These videos do not show the true beauty of chicago

[@scottpeterson4946]

I hope you can visit here someday as well. It is a great city.

[@jonahkarsh4113]

We’d love to have you!

[@Cynical_Zombie]

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

[@cocoaorange1]

I met him briefly in 2004, at a charity dinner. What a thrill!

[@cocoaorange1]

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

[@ingmarvanderhoek6314]

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

[@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79]

So many hidden gems in Chicago.

[@armandde1]

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.

[@davidstronach3261]

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

[@perezcross2785]

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

[@pc88k]

Will be there next week! Can’t wait

[@cocoaorange1]

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.

[@andrewzwick2285]

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.

[@ntatenarin]

Part 2 is coming! I think later this month

[@doinitforthestreets]

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

[@reallyhorrorblereviews]

I hope this will be available on DVD

[@anneoboyle8447]

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

[@jcavenagh]

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.

[@pizzaearthpancakesandother2549]

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

[@cocoaorange1]

I am a native Chicagoan, but feel every city is a gem in a way, but Chicago certainly has it's sparks.

[@davidkimmel4216]

Thank you 😊

[@jodypalm6690]

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

[@jamesanonymous2343]

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

[@franzdoreza5230]

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.

[@choreboy3906]

Lightfoots former office?

[@franzdoreza5230]

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.

[@narcissisticnihilist9718]

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

[@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79]

Shithole really, a city with a super strong economy constantly building skyscraper’s and attracting international tourists annually. I’m sorry you don’t like living in reality and facing facts, no matter the negative rep this city still thrives. Like it always has, I see you still tuned in though and watched the video of this shithole. Lol