Ida B. Wells arrived in Memphis as a young schoolteacher and left as one of the most dangerous journalists in America, after a mob destroyed her newspaper office for daring to investigate lynching as a tool of economic terror rather than a response to crime. This episode of WTTW's Chicago Stories series traces her path from the Reconstruction South to Chicago, where she kept writing, organizing, and confronting power even as national civil rights leaders tried to sideline her. Archival photographs, newspaper pages, and historian interviews reconstruct her investigative method: she counted bodies, checked court records, and published the numbers when officials would not. The film covers her pamphlet Southern Horrors, her clashes with Susan B. Anthony and Booker T. Washington over strategy, and her role helping found the NAACP, an organization that later kept her at arm's length. It settles into Chicago's Black neighborhoods, where she ran a settlement house and pushed for women's suffrage alongside anti-lynching work. The picture that emerges is of a reporter who treated documentation as a weapon.