(dramatic music) - Fire's responding to an address.

- 71st.

- It changed my family.

It changed my community.

It changed everybody.

- Something so banal (buttons clicking) as a medicine turned into a weapon of death.

- The same message code one for a man down.

The paramedics looked, they said it can't be.

He's dead.

Something's not right.

- No warnings.

No watches, no indication there was anything outta the ordinary happening.

(buttons clicking) - This is the city of Chicago.

It takes a lot to stop this city, but that blizzard stopped it.

- That blizzard changed the course of history.

- This is January 12th, 1979, the first stage of the snowstorm that will change the political complexion of Chicago.

- You ain't seen nothing yet.

(crowd cheering) - [Speaker] Rod Blagojevich is a tragedy.

He had it all.

- Rod.

- Rod, how you feeling?

- I regret getting into politics.

Looking back, I should have just been a lawyer.

- Pride goes before the fall and in Rod's case, the fall was pretty serious.

- When we talk about being in Chicago, it's about the food.

(buttons clicking) It's about avant garde food.

It's about neighborhood food.

- It's one of the great food cities in the world.

- Chicago style hotdog is my favorite.

It's a symphony on a bun.

There is no more exciting food city than Chicago.

- Marshall Field and Chicago those were synonymous things.

(buttons clicking) - It was a source of Chicago pride.

It wasn't just a department store, it was the department store.

- [Speaker] Marshall Field's always in our heart.

Marshall Field's is always Chicago.

- [Speaker] It was part of Chicagoans' identity as a major American city (dramatic music continues) because Chicago history is American history.