Join us for a journey along our most famous front yard The eyes of the world were on Chicagos Lakefront on election night 2008 as tens of thousands of people gathered there to celebrate with PresidentElect Barack Obama Chicagos lakefront is unique in the world Its a seventeenmilelong peoples paradise that belongs to all of us WTTWs popular onair host producer and Chicago Architecture Foundation docent Geoffrey Baer will retrace his steps in Chicagos Lakefront an allnew documentary tour shot in High Definition Chicagos Lakefront debuted on WTTW11 and WTTWD on December 1 just a month before the start of the 100th anniversary year of Daniel Burnhams great Plan of Chicago which transformed the lakefront into an unbroken ribbon of public parks