Geoffrey Baer is a multiple Emmy Award-winning producer and program host for WTTW Channel 11 (PBS). He is best known as the host and writer of WTTW’s popular Chicago-area tour programs such as Chicago's Lakefront, Chicago by Boat, The New River Tour, Chicago's Loop: A Walking Tour, and Chicago by "L": Touring the Neighborhoods, as well as six full-length documentaries about virtually all of Chicago’s suburban areas. He also hosted and co-wrote The Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History (nominated for a James Beard Award) and explored the surprising side of the city in Hidden Chicago. Mr. Baer also appears regularly on WTTW11’s flagship nightly news program Chicago Tonight answering viewers’ questions about Chicago architecture and history in a segment called Ask Geoffrey. In his 20 years at WTTW, Mr. Baer has been executive producer of the weekly cultural magazine show Artbeat Chicago, and of the weekly documentary series Chicago Stories. In addition to his Emmy Awards, Mr. Baer has received the CPB Gold Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcast, and awards from the National Association of Broadcasters, the New York Festivals, the U.S. International Film and Video Festival and the Chicago Headline Club. He has also been honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Illinois State Historical Society. He has a master’s degree in theater from Northwestern University an undergraduate degree in Radio/TV/Film from Miami University in Ohio.