Chicagoland: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Robert Redford's Sundance Productions, along with award-winning filmmakers Marc Levin and Mark Benjamin, are the driving forces behind "Chicagoland," a non-scripted, eight-part docuseries about the challenges facing a quintessential American city. Those challenges -- public education, street violence and neighborhood infrastructure prevalent among them -- are not unique to Chicago, but the program's storylines focus on how the city's policymakers -- chiefly Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has a starring role -- are attempting to unite with community leaders and residents to affect positive change and allow aspirations to be realized. And how that ultimately plays out in the Windy City, according to the producers, will tell a lot about where the country is headed. Mark Konkol, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times, narrates the hourlong episodes.

Series details

• Title: Chicagoland
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2014-03-06
• Final broadcast date listed: 2014-04-24
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CNN
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 13552
• IMDb ID: tt3562626
• TVDB ID: 279292

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2014-03-06; final listed air date 2014-04-24; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

Adapted from Chicagoland on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.