No matter how obscure the question, nothing about Chicago’s history stumps WTTW’s Geoffrey Baer, the Windy City’s favorite TV tour guide. Geoffrey Baer is sitting in a McDonald’s on Chicago’s South ...

There was standing-room only at the DuPage County Historical Museum on Nov. 7 when one of Chicago’s favorite TV producers presented “An Evening with Geoffrey Baer.” Baer, the eight-time Emmy ...

Geoffrey Baer is a multiple Emmy Award-winning producer and program host for WTTW in Chicago. He is best known as the host and writer of WTTW's popular feature-length specials about Chicago ...

Year Three of the Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter closes — and what a significant year 2024 was. We poured through the ...

“He tied a rope around his waist, dove in and swam toward the struggling survivors,” Baer says. “They’d pull him in to shore with a victim, and he’d dive in and do it again. Later he collapsed and was ...

Chicago Tours with Geoffrey Baer is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

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 ...

WTTW's popular on-air host, producer and Chicago Architecture Foundation docent Geoffrey Baer will re-trace his steps in Chicago's Lakefront, an all-new documentary tour shot in High Definition.