Geoffrey Baer

While filming Riding the Rails, host Geoffrey Baer inspired Liam Davy, beverage director at Hawksmoor Chicago, to shake up something special. 

In the new special Riding the Rails, Geoffrey Baer explores Chicago’s past and present trains and railroad lines and explains why the city was and is known as “America’s railroad capital.”

Chicago Works took us near and far to meet the people whose everyday work keeps our city humming. So we thought it was only fair to turn the tables and give you a behind-the-scenes look at our own work here at WTTW.

Léon Krier, an influential architect and theorist who rejected modernism in favor of classical architecture and traditional urban layouts, has died. Geoffrey Baer interviewed him several times. 

From snorkeling to a shipwreck to fishing in the lake, observing NASCAR to a rodeo, Geoffrey Baer explores Chicago's lakefront and all it has to offer in his latest special.

WTTW host, writer, and producer Geoffrey Baer has been named the recipient of the University Club of Chicago Cultural Award, joining the likes of Studs Terkel, Roger Ebert, and more.

We sat down with Geoffrey Baer to learn more about the making of A Celebration of Hanukkah and what viewers can look forward to.

Many of Chicago's cemeteries are surprisingly beautiful and pastoral, in addition to being full of intriguing stories, sculptures, and monuments along with the prominent Chicagoans buried in them.

In his new special Chicago Mysteries, Geoffrey Baer solves some of Chicago’s age-old mysteries involving a UFO sighting, a cemetery secret, and more. He sat down to offer up some behind-the-scenes intelligence. 

Ever since the opening of the Central Library, now the Cultural Center, in 1897, the Chicago area has built some remarkable libraries, as Geoffrey Baer explores. 

There are plenty of beautiful schools to be found in the Chicago area, from the grand edifices of the nineteenth century to modernist masterpieces. Geoffrey Baer highlights a few noteworthy ones.

In The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago 2, Geoffrey Baer explores more eye-popping places around Chicago, and the stories behind them. He spoke to us about the new special.