History Channel series imagines Chicago without Chicagoans

Paige Wiser: “Life After People” is a History Channel series with one mission: to freak you out. Tonight’s episode focuses on what would happen to London, Atlanta and Chicago if humankind were to suddenly disappear. The Chicago portion of the 9 p.m. show is eerily realistic, maybe because producers had such a conveniently close case study: Gary, Ind. The narrator sternly calls Gary “the Pompeii of the Midwest.”

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