boardgamevideo
  • Trending
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Channels
  • Lists
  • Shorts

Explore

  • Home
  • Trending
  • Channels
  • Videos
  • Games
  • Lists
  • Shorts
  • Conventions
  • Year in Review

Browse by type

  • Reviews
  • How to play
  • Playthroughs
  • Unboxing
  • Top 100 lists
  • Featured videos
  • Trending this week
  • Rising games
  • Games with fresh review perspectives

Information

  • About
  • Contact
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

© 2022–2026 BoardGameVideo.com

Powered by BGG
  • Videos
  • Trending
  • Shorts
  • Channels
  • Games
  • Lists
Jan 9, 2026·Unboxing·10:07·10·Watch on YouTube

Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders Gamefound Unboxing

eNVy Board Gaming

eNVy Board Gaming

Watch “Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders Gamefound Unboxing,” a board game unboxing for Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by eNVy Board Gaming on YouTube:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eNVyBoardGaming Twitter: https://twitter.com/envyboardgaming Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/envyboardgaming

Explore more Videos

  1. Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Straight Up Solo with John LaRuffa29:53
    Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Straight Up Solo with John LaRuffa
    No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa
  2. Forage Board Game Overview & Review18:14
    Forage Board Game Overview & Review
    eNVy Board Gaming
  3. Entropy Gamefound Unboxing13:11
    Entropy Gamefound Unboxing
    eNVy Board Gaming
  4. Kingdom Come Deliverance - Solo Playthrough3:03:46
    Kingdom Come Deliverance - Solo Playthrough
    Gaming Rules!
  5. Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders Review10:35
    Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders Review
    The Dice Tower
  6. White Castle Matcha Two Player Playthrough1:05:56
    White Castle Matcha Two Player Playthrough
    eNVy Board Gaming
  7. Hell of a Deal Overview & Review24:18
    Hell of a Deal Overview & Review
    eNVy Board Gaming
  8. Hell of a Deal Kickstarter Unboxing10:52
    Hell of a Deal Kickstarter Unboxing
    eNVy Board Gaming
  9. Gutenberg Board Game Overview & Review24:24
    Gutenberg Board Game Overview & Review
    eNVy Board Gaming
  10. Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Unbiased Unboxing with John LaRuffa7:35
    Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Unbiased Unboxing with John LaRuffa
    No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa
  11. Bohnanza Review: Chili Beans?8:53
    Bohnanza Review: Chili Beans?
    The Dice Tower
  12. Forage & Honeypot Kickstarter Unboxing15:13
    Forage & Honeypot Kickstarter Unboxing
    eNVy Board Gaming
Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders

Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders

2019·Raymond Chandler III

Videos
5
Creators
4

Mostly reviews and unboxings. Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 2 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, and 2 unboxings.

1 - 4 players
120 - 180 min
Very heavy weight: Rules-dense, long sessions

About Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders, from BoardGameGeek:

After the great Chicago Fire of 1871, the brave men and women of Chicago sought to rebuild their once-great city, and rebuild it they did. Over the next 60 years Chicago experienced an economic golden age, making such great progress that it hosted The World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, followed not long after by a celebration of its Century of Progress at The World's Fair in 1933. Many of the household brands we've come to know and love today had their start in Chicago during this time period; Oscar Mayer, Kraft, Quaker Oats, Nabisco, Swift & Co, Armour & Co, Schwinn Bicycles, Charles Schwab, and many others made a home here in this tall, bold slugger. In City of the Big Shoulders players take on the roles of entrepreneurs and investors seeking to rebuild Chicago into a city fit for the world stage. In this unique merger of 18xx-style stock manipulation mechanics with euro-style gameplay, players start companies, trade in shares, hire employees, equip their factories, produce goods and sell them to be delivered to homes across the midwest. Although City of the Big Shoulders features a large amount of strategic depth and rewarding gameplay, it does so in a shorter timeline than is typical of most heavy economic games. Players play just five rounds (also known as decades) in about two and a half hours. Each decade consists of five unique phases: A stock phase where players can buy and sell stock; a building phase where players rebuild the city of Chicago, placing action spaces on the board; an action phase where companies send their partners to make deals across Chicago; an Operating Phase where companies buy resources, produce goods, and ship them out of Chicago; and finally a cleanup phase where the board is set up for the following decade. At the end of the fifth decade, the game ends. Players then exchange shares that they have purchased over the course of the game for cash, are rewarded for any of the public goals they have accomplished over the five decades of play, and tally their money to determine who is Chicago's greatest resident. -description from the publisher

Designer

Raymond Chandler III

Artists

Emily R. Dearring, Andreas Resch

Publisher

Parallel Games

Categories

EconomicEducational

Mechanics

Market & TradingContracts
View on BoardGameGeek ›
Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders

Explore more videos

Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Straight Up Solo with John LaRuffaReview29:53

Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Straight Up Solo with John LaRuffa

No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa

No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa

Forage Board Game Overview & ReviewReview18:14

Forage Board Game Overview & Review

eNVy Board Gaming

eNVy Board Gaming

Entropy Gamefound UnboxingUnboxing13:11

Entropy Gamefound Unboxing

eNVy Board Gaming

eNVy Board Gaming

Kingdom Come Deliverance - Solo PlaythroughPlaythrough3:03:46

Kingdom Come Deliverance - Solo Playthrough

Gaming Rules!

Gaming Rules!

Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders ReviewReview10:35

Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders Review

The Dice Tower

The Dice Tower

White Castle Matcha Two Player PlaythroughPlaythrough1:05:56

White Castle Matcha Two Player Playthrough

eNVy Board Gaming

eNVy Board Gaming

Hell of a Deal Overview & ReviewReview24:18

Hell of a Deal Overview & Review

eNVy Board Gaming

eNVy Board Gaming

Hell of a Deal Kickstarter UnboxingUnboxing10:52

Hell of a Deal Kickstarter Unboxing

eNVy Board Gaming

eNVy Board Gaming

Gutenberg Board Game Overview & ReviewReview24:24

Gutenberg Board Game Overview & Review

eNVy Board Gaming

eNVy Board Gaming

Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Unbiased Unboxing with John LaRuffaUnboxing7:35

Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Unbiased Unboxing with John LaRuffa

No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa

No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa

Bohnanza Review: Chili Beans?Review8:53

Bohnanza Review: Chili Beans?

The Dice Tower

The Dice Tower

Forage & Honeypot Kickstarter UnboxingUnboxing15:13

Forage & Honeypot Kickstarter Unboxing

eNVy Board Gaming

eNVy Board Gaming

City Of the Big Shoulders is back!How to play3:26

City Of the Big Shoulders is back!

Quined Games

Quined Games

Cascadia Alpine Lakes - Teach & PlaythroughPlaythrough1:00:48

Cascadia Alpine Lakes - Teach & Playthrough

Before You Play

Before You Play

Race for the Galaxy PlaythroughPlaythrough34:18

Race for the Galaxy Playthrough

eNVy Board Gaming

eNVy Board Gaming

Fragments: Solara Review: Jigsaw StoriesReview6:55

Fragments: Solara Review: Jigsaw Stories

The Dice Tower

The Dice Tower

More videos about Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders

Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Unbiased Unboxing with John LaRuffaUnboxing7:35

Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Unbiased Unboxing with John LaRuffa

No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa

No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa

City Of the Big Shoulders is back!How to play3:26

City Of the Big Shoulders is back!

Quined Games

Quined Games

Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Straight Up Solo with John LaRuffaReview29:53

Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders - Straight Up Solo with John LaRuffa

No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa

No Fluff Solo Gaming with John LaRuffa

Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders ReviewReview10:35

Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders Review

The Dice Tower

The Dice Tower

Related Content

More Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders videos
game

More Chicago 1875: City of the Big Shoulders videos

channel

More videos from this channel

Home
Videos
Chicago 1875: City of Big Shoulders Gamefound Unboxing