Beyond Chicago from the Air

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How did Chicago become one of America's boldest and most dynamic cities with its location way out here in the middle of the country? The threads to that story are in the waterways - both natural and manmade - and in the land that drew people in to settle here. Traveling by air beyond Chicago's borders, out into Illinois, and back through time, the water and land that paint the landscape tell the stories of people who fought, built, reshaped, and restored.