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How Docuseries ‘City So Real’ Paints a Vivid Portrait of Chicago, Democracy and Decency

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Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticOn the day of the 2019 Chicago mayoral election, candidate Neal Sáles-Griffin went to a polling place first thing in the morning to cast a vote for himself, a celebratory moment he’d worked towards for months.

Instead, the digital machine immediately failed. He had to wait as the harried volunteers rebooted it, called tech support, and assured him that any minute now, surely, he’d be able to successfully vote.As portrayed in NatGeo’s new docuseries “City So Real,” from lauded “Hoop Dreams” documentarian Steve James, this is a small moment in the grand scheme of things.

The series is comprised of just five episodes, but follows the entire Chicago mayoral election from the early days following Rahm Emanuel’s.

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