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.
View the full site at https://wttw.com/beautifulplaces
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
See more web exclusive videos and the full interactive site at https://wttw.com/beautifulplaces
With this documentary I have mapped out the bulk of the best places to visit in Chicago-thank you so much from Perth, Western Australia.
What a bang-up job thank you for creating such a nice piece not only my wife wants Chicago but I'm a lover of architecture and even on occasionally tour guide and what you taught me about the places and houses of worship and the Interiors you show me were completely new to me and I thank you so very much and everyone knew he had such great stuff
16:40 B E T A M A L E
Bravissimo 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 I was able to watch this on YouTube, on my big screen TV. What a Joy! I love my city even more❤
it's that thee Jeannie gang
Never knew that Woody Allen plagiarized the rats-with-wings descriptor from NYC Parks Commissioner, &c., Hoving. | "Well, I'll be a dirty bird " —George Gobel.
Brown Timothy Hernandez Dorothy Garcia Joseph
🎉🎉🎉😊👍✨💯🤗💫
Geoffrey Baer Do You Know The Mallers Building ?
I have been to that Northeastern Illinois University. It’s pretty cool looking on the inside.
0: 0:42
Typical manipulation. Catholics and their beautiful churches do not exist in Chicago for such a writer? Only business and their own people and interest?
Geoffrey Baer is a true Chicago treasure! Hie programs about Chicago are are fun and informative. He also visits ALL parts of the city, capturing it's history, sparkle and challenges as he goes.
His man-in-the-srreet quiz show is hilarious and also informative. It surprises me how much everyday people know about their city.
He has also produced and narrated specials on parks, houses that changed America. And he doesn't leave out the uncomfortable parts. He covers the history and outcomes of the various public housing and the effects of panic peddling on the South Side of Chicago.
I remember working in downtown Chicago, I thought I would take a shortcut through the Rookerie and found myself standing in the atrium….absolutely stunned.
Woman tried to build a sky scraper and managed to F it up!!lol Had to pull the glass right on top cause the high winds would do damage to the building structure!! Way to go!! Good job!! Keep WOKE and DEI agoing!!
So excellent!
35:00 BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Bartlett, IL
After visiting Chicago for over 50 years, I'm pleasantly surprised on how many new places were shown in this video. Great work!
Planning a trip to Chicago in the next few months. This helps. Thanks.
Wonderful
Another eye sore skyscraper
29:27 Duncan’s Toy Chest
CHICAGO WAS MY BIRTHPLACE, & HOME FOR 60 YEARS. I LEFT IN 2002, AND I
WOULD NEVER GO BACK…. BECAUSE "MY CHICAGO",,,,,,,,,IS GONE ! ! NOW IT'S
A "MULTI ETHNIC RANCID STEW",,,,,,,,,,PHEWWWWWW ! ! ! !
ST REGIS TOWER LOOKS LIKE IT WAS MADE OF "MELTING SCULPY"
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.
No mention of the Wrigley Building? Or the Auditorium Building, or the Cultural Center Building?
The best and nicest host of chicago and a cubs fan as well😊
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.
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.
Thank you 😊
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.
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.
One of my favorite older buildings is the union carbide building in black and gold… Still a classic… And one of my favorite modern ones, is the one on the highway… is it call north central university building? Whatever it is, I think the architect did a magnificent job… Modern, sleek, but not boring by any means because of the organic shape… More like Mies van der Rohe in feminine form… The best of both worlds… And I love how it changes from different angles, the colors, and how it hugs the highway… Fantastic architecture🙏👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠.𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐨.𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫. if you’re going to build a building, why not make it as beautiful as possible? Just like automobiles, there’s no reason for a car to be ugly, it’s made of the same material as a beautiful car… So why shouldn’t an inexpensive car look just as nice as a luxury car? why can’t a beautiful building not cost 10 times the amount just because it’s more attractive? Especially if they’re using the same materials… Obviously there’s a lot more involved but if you’re going to build something you might as well make it beautiful since it’s meant to last for more than a couple hundred years.
I can’t believe the Tribune Tower is just condos and retail space… Well that’s what happens when everything goes digital… Media also becomes bullshit… Biased propaganda… And I know because I spoke to a former Tribune writer who quit more than 20 years ago because he said that journalism is dead… He wanted to write a piece about Israel/Palestine… He wanted to write about the Middle East, Africa, basically what is really going on… But he was not allowed to write about certain topics… So that means journalism is no longer the truth… It’s only what they want you to know.
Quarries are dangerous places to swim. I had read many times of people drowning on quarries by Braintree or Quincy MA. Unaware, they all died by drowning lured by a swim in a hot summer’s day.
I love the Garfield Park Conservatory, I grew up only a few blocks away.
So many hidden gems in Chicago.
The "Now Leaving" sign is the most beautiful thing in that s__thole
I LOVE💕Chicago! 🍀with Geoffrey Baer! 🐻 ❤️🙏😘💐
This is so good, amazing level of production, thank you!
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.
Will be there next week! Can’t wait
I hope this will be available on DVD
Lightfoots former office?
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
Another winner from Geoffrey Baer! Surprising highlight, (spolier alert) watching Geoffrey scale a wall from one of the sites visited. 😉