Geoffrey Baer

AKA:
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Biography

Crew Roles

Chicago's Loop: A New Walking Tour
Writer
The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago
Writer
The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago
Executive Producer
10 Buildings That Changed America
Writer
Chicago Mysteries with Geoffrey Baer
Writer
Chicago by Boat: The New River Tour
Writer
Touring the Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer
Writer
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {27}

Himself

2023-03-07 0

The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago

Chicago is full of places that take your breath away, from gilded lobbies to verdant parks and eye-bending skyscrapers to glorious sacred spaces. Geoffrey Baer has seen a lot of these stunning locatio ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself / Host

2016-04-05 0

10 Homes that Changed America

Ten American homes designed by visionary architects, their eclectic clients and current homeowners are highlighted. Each home combined form, function and art to challenge the nature of a home and evol ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2001-01-01 0

Chicago by L

The ride of your life is just a turnstile away! Take a special journey as Geoffrey Baer explores Chicago's ethnic diversity from on-board the 'L.'! This guided front-row tour is a unique, elevated gli ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Self - Host

2024-04-16 0

Chicago Mysteries with Geoffrey Baer

Did a UFO fly over O’Hare Airport? How did the alligator later named "Chance the Snapper" suddenly appear in Chicago’s Humboldt Lagoon? Is Hull House haunted? Why don’t Chicagoans put ketchup on their ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2014-08-26 0

Biking the Boulevards

In Biking the Boulevards, Geoffrey Baer bikes his way across Chicago, using the city's network of boulevards. The boulevards are wide, tree-lined streets, which connect Chicago's largest parks. This s ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2013-05-12 0

10 Buildings That Changed America

10 Buildings that Changed America presents 10 trend-setting works of architecture that have shaped and inspired our American landscape. These aren’t just historic structures by famous architects. Thes ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2005-08-20 0

7 Wonders of Chicago

Chicago is filled with Architectural wonders from the famous to the hidden treasures waiting to be discovered! Join Geoffrey Baer as he explores seven of the best Chicago has to offer! The seven wonde ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2006-06-15 0

Chicago by Boat: The New River Tour

History of Chicago from the stage of the Chicago River. ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2009-01-01 0

Hidden Chicago 2

In this sequel to WTTW's popular Hidden Chicago special, Geoffrey Baer explores dusty attics, deep tunnels and the candy aisle at Walgreen's in search of fascinating fragments of Chicago's past and li ...
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Himself/Host

2008-01-01 0

Hidden Chicago

Documentary showing some of the partially hidden history and art in the city of Chicago. ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2019-03-05 0

Chicago on Vacation

When your family piled into the car for a vacation, where did you go? Starved Rock? Lake Geneva? The Dells? Maybe the Indiana Dunes? Or Michigan’s Harbor Country? The road trip is a time-honored t ...
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Himself/Host

2008-12-31 0

Chicago's Lakefront

Join us for a journey along our most famous front yard. The eyes of the world were on Chicago's Lakefront on election night 2008 as tens of thousands of people gathered there to celebrate with Presid ...
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Himself/Host

2002-01-01 0

Chicago's North Shore

History of the suburbs and towns North of Chicago. ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2004-01-01 9.5

Northwest of Chicago: From Farm Fields to Boomtowns

History of the suburbs and towns Northwest of Chicago. ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2013-01-01 0

Chicago Time Machine

Did you ever wish you could travel back in history to find out what happened right on the spot where you’re standing? That’s exactly what WTTW Host Geoffrey Baer did. With his Chicago Time Machine, h ...
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Himself/Host

2011-01-01 0

Chicago's Loop: A New Walking Tour

In an area barely ten square blocks, Geoffrey Baer traces the history of the skyscraper in the city where it was born. What makes a city, a city? Is it the buildings? The people? Is it what happened ...
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Himself/Host

2015-11-30 0

Chicago's South Side

The story of the South Side of Chicago is a story of immigrants and of migrants, of workers and unions, of political dynasties and sports legacies, art and commerce, progress and struggle. It is a st ...
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Himself/Host

2006-01-01 0

Chicago's Western Suburbs: From Prairie Soil to Prairie Style

Join Geoffrey Baer for his newest engaging Chicago tour program, which covers Chicago's historic Western suburbs. Highlights include Brookfield Zoo, McDonald's headquarters, some Frank Lloyd Wright a ...
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Himself/Host

2006-01-01 0

Fox River Valley and Chain O' Lakes

It's a journey that starts at Blarney Island, a rowdy bar in the middle of a lake accessible only by boat, and ends sixty miles down the Fox River at Mies Van Der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, one of the w ...
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Himself/Host

2004-01-01 0

South of Chicago: Suburbs, Steel Mills, Shoreline

Take a journey along the waterways, highways, and railways of Chicago's South Suburbs and Northwest Indiana. Starting in Gary, with a look inside the largest still mill in the Western Hemisphere, trav ...
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Himself/Host

2007-01-01 0

Southwest Suburbs: Birthplace of Chicago

It's a part of Chicago that's full of surprises. It's home to a 28-square-mile forest with a rock canyon. It's where one of the Blues Brothers did time (along with thousands of other real-life convict ...
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Himself/Host

2009-07-09 0

The Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History

You are what you eat goes the old saying. So what can we learn about Chicagoans from the food on our plates? WTTW 11's Geoffrey Baer plays both taste-tester and tour guide, exploring the little-known ...
Genre :

Host

2024-12-23 0

A Celebration of Hanukkah

Follow Geoffrey Baer on a heartwarming, nostalgic, and humorous journey as he tells the story of Hanukkah, exploring the time-honored traditions of this joyous Jewish holiday and making a few surprisi ...
Genre :Documentary

Host

2025-04-14 0

Touring the Lakefront with Geoffrey Baer

Geoffrey Baer is back to traverse the length and breadth of Chicago’s world-famous “front yard” to explore everything from beloved birds to submerged secrets along Chicago’s lakefront. A fascinating j ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself

2025-12-09 0

Chicago Works with Geoffrey Baer

Chicago is known, famously, as “the city that works.” But who keeps it working? In a new 60-minute special, CHICAGO WORKS, Geoffrey Baer meets (and helps) the industrious workers across the city and s ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2013-05-13 0

10 That Changed America

Host Geoffrey Baer takes viewers across the country to the places that changed America. ...
Genre :Documentary

Himself/Host

2001-08-01 8

Chicago Tours with Geoffrey Baer

Explore Chicago, its neighborhoods, and beyond with WTTW host and producer Geoffrey Baer. From the neighborhoods and suburbs of Chicago to the Chicago River and the Boulevards to the foods and history ...
Genre :Documentary