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[[File:20090524 Buildings along Chicago River line the south border of the Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center.jpg |thumb|[[Frank Sinatra|My kind of town, Chicago is]]]]
{{quote|''"I have struck a city -- a real city -- and they call it Chicago ... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."''|'''[[Rudyard Kipling]]''', 1891}}
Chicago, Illinois: incorporated in 1837. The name comes from the Algonquian word ''shikaakwa'', or "wild onion"<ref>Or "smelly onion" depending on how you translate it</ref>. We shit you not: it was [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|what was growing]] in the swampland that was perfectly situated for continental-scale commerce. It's the third most populous city in the United States and a fabled fortress of jazz, [[The Mafia|organized crime]], Michael Jordan, Daaaaaa Bearsss, the 1893 World's Fair, deep-dish pizza, Frank Lloyd Wright, house music, improvisational theatre, two baseball teams known for perennial mediocrity which fiercely battle for the city's love/scorn, skyscrapers, revolving doors, a very pleasant lakefront, very unpleasant winters, [[Barack Obama|
During the Prohibition period, it was the home base of [[Al Capone]]. Blacks, fleeing the Jim Crow south, made it a blues center. A squash court at the University of Chicago was the site of the world's first controlled nuclear reaction.
Chicago has a public rail system called the 'L,' a combination of subways and elevated tracks that radiates from a loop around the city center towards the city's edges and (in some cases) the surrounding suburbs. This "Loop" runs through some of the most prominent buildings in the city, including the recently renamed Willis Tower (most people still know it as Sears Tower, the tallest building in the Americas; the retail company had moved out long before the rename). Contrary to the popular belief, the Loop got its name from the now-gone cablecar loop rather than the elevated rail tracks that encircle it today. Also, the system is called the 'L', not the "El" (that would be New York's elevated railroad).
The vast majority of Chicagoans [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|live, play, eat, and occasionally kill]] in Chicago's many, many neighborhoods. People call Chicago "a city of neighborhoods," with each having their own distinct character and well defined boundaries. Many current-day neighborhoods were originally cities or suburbs on their own that Chicago swallowed up as it grew. Many of these cities kept something of their previous character, even unto today.
Chicago's sprawl puts [[Los Angeles]] to shame, with over a hundred neighborhoods organized into several Sides. Most people are familiar with the North and South sides. The North Side is commonly depicted as wealthy and white while the South Side is usually depicted as poor and black. There is a certain truth to those assumptions - North Side contains some of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods, while the South Side contains some of the city's poorest, most crime-ridden ghettos. But as most Chicagoans would tell you, there are plenty of exceptions - North Side has its share of poor and working-class neighborhoods with fairly diverse immigrant population (Uptown and Rogers Park immediately come to mind), and South Side has its share of working class, middle class and even wealthy neighborhoods (Hyde Park, Kenwood, Bronzeville & Beverly). The reason why the perception exists is because historically, the North Side was wealthier than the largely working-class South Side. Also:
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In addition to North Side and South Side, there are several other lesser known sides - West Side, Northwest Side, Southeast Side, Far Northwest Side, Far South Side and the neighborhood known as the East Side. Generally speaking, all sides can be described as follows:
== North Side ==
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* Gold Coast - one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Chicago and, for a while, the only wealthy neighborhood in the Near North Side. It is made up of a peculiar mix of high-rises and small, yet expensive rowhouses (plus a few historic mansions here and there).
* Streeterville - established by [[Civil War]] veteran George Steeter on the landfill formed by the debris created during the Chicago Fire, it was an industrial neighborhood for much of its existence. In recent decades, it saw some very heavy-duty gentrification as high rises were built where warehouses and factories once stood - today, it is home to some of the most expensive real estate in Chicago.
* Cabrini-Green - a public housing complex infamous for its crime and poverty, it is currently undergoing slow and painful forced gentrification as the decaying public housing buildings are slowly being replaced by mixed-income housing. One of the more common [[Did Not Do the Research]] points when it comes to Chicago is placing Cabrini-Green, on the South Side. It is actually in Near North Side, to the west of Gold Coast.
* River North - another former industrial area, it got a new lease on life as Chicago's oldest artist colony. These days, the poor artists that defined it either got rich and stayed put or moved elsewhere. Most of the people that lived here now fall into upper-middle class, but its artistic legacy survives in its art galleries.
* Magnificent Mile - one of Chicago's three original high-end shopping districts, it was the only one to survive to this day. Currently the classic deparment stores have been outted by typical mall shops and a few museums still spot it.
* Lincoln Park - one of the poster children for North Side gentrification, it was originally a working-class neighborhood dominated by (in chronological order) Germans, Poles and Puerto Ricans. These days, it's largely middle class, with the coastal area threading towards "wealthy."
* Lakeview - another former working-class neighborhood, this area houses Boystown and Wrigleyville. Contains the goth and hipster friendly Alley shopping complex and lots of overpriced apartment buildings.
** Boystown - the latest in the long line of Chicago's [[Gayborhood|gayborhoods]] (and so far, the longest-lasting), it developed along the Chicago Pride Parade route. Gentrification has eroded some of its GLBT-centric aspects, but only to a point.
** Wrigleyville - [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], this section of Lakeview is the area surrounding Wrigley Field, home of baseball's Chicago Cubs, who are notable for being the only team that still plays the majority of their home games during the daytime. The apartment buildings across from Wrigley on Waveland and Sheffield Avenues have been expanded to become part of the field's seating <s>un</s>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100201182340/http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/chc/ballpark/rooftops.jsp officially], though they have to [[Friendly Enemy|pay the Cubs a premium for the privilege]].
* Uptown - one of the North Side's historically wealthy neighborhoods and home to what was then the city's largest entertainment district, it was hit pretty hard during the Great Depression. After World War II, it became a refuge for ethnic and social groups that had hard time settling anywhere else on the North Side. There have been some efforts to gentrify Uptown, and they were somewhat successful, but much of Uptown is still either working-class or poor. These is lots of back-and-forth between the gentrifiers and everybody else about what the neighborhood is like and what needs to be done in order to fix it. Taking any position on the matter will cause flame wars.
* Edgewater - originally Uptown's wealthier section, it broke away to make a fresh start. Gentrification has been more successful here, though as with Uptown, it didn't completely take. It has a sizable immigrant population, and many of those immigrants came from African countries.
** Andersonville - a historic Swedish neighborhood, it developed a sizable lesbian enclave back in the 80s. During the most recent real estate boom, it was heralded as the Next Hip Thing, but while it never did become the next Lakeview, it lived up to the label in many respects.
* Rogers Park - a former site of a major Pottawatomie Indian settlement, the neighborhood has become a haven for immigrants from all over the globe, including India, Pakistan, Russia, Ecudaor, Korea, China and various Middle Eastern countries. It is one of the few Chicago neighborhoods that can be safely called "integrated." The section closest to Chicago's northern border (locally known as Juneway Terrace or, less charitably, Juneway Jungle) is fairly poor, but the rest of the neighborhood is largely working class, with some middle-class incursions along the coast and near Loyola University.
* West Ridge - the western section of Rogers Park back when Rogers Park was an independent village, it shares many characteristics with its parent community, except it has less gentrification, more immigrants and less genuinely poor areas.
== South Side ==
'''South Side''' - once the wealthiest section of Chicago, its fortunes took a dramatic turn for the worse in the wake of the Great Depression. It also contained the city's largest black enclave - Bronzeville. Any black who tried to settle outside of its borders wasn't looked upon very kindly (to put it mildly). When Supreme Court made housing restrictions illegal and blacks spread out beyond the overcrowded Bronzeville, white residents panicked. There were some attempts to stop the process, but ultimately, the older residents couldn't fight demographics. Most chose White Flight. Red-Lining and blockbusting made things worse for the black residents that replaced them.
For a while, South Side contained the largest concentration of public housing in United States (mostly because white aldermen didn't want it in their neighborhoods and fought to keep it in Bronzeville's immediate vicinity). From late 1980s onward, the city has been tearing them down and replacing them with mixed-income housing. Or, at least, that's the theory - the replacement part has been kind of slow. There has also been some gentrification going on, mostly in the Near South Side (the city's historic southern section).
Some of the more notable South Side neighborhoods include:
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* Bridgeport - Chicago's first Irish neighborhood and the heart of the city's legendary Democratic machine. A long-time bastion of European immigrants and their descendants, the neighborhood has seen significant influx of Chinese and Mexican residents, to the point where they operate a significant portion of the neighborhood's businesses. For a while, black weren't particularly welcome there, even after the civil rights era, but that is gradually changing.
* Bronzeville - Chicago's oldest black neighborhood, it has recently become a site of major redevelopment efforts as the middle-class descendants of its original residents hope to transform it into a safe, bustling black community. North of Pershing Road, things look like they are heading in that direction - south of it, not so much.
* Hyde Park - A neighborhood that exists in symbiosis with University of Chicago, which invested considerable money and resources into making sure that it wouldn't succumb to economic depression and decay the way most surrounding neighborhoods did. It is one of the few Chicago neighborhoods that can be considered integrated, but, as many people would bitterly pointed out, most of the residents are middle class. Hyde Park and UC enforce the peace with very heavy police presence and an extensive emergency alert system.
* Kenwood - a historically white, middle class neighborhood, it has been going through a process similar to Bronzeville, except in this case, it went on for almost a decade longer and had more successes. Some of Chicago's wealthiest and most famous black residents live here (including [[Barack Obama]], who moved in from Hyde Park in 2005). As with Bronzeville, the development has been uneven - it's a solidly middle-class black enclave south of 47th Street, but things get a lot more mixed in the rest of the neighborhood.
* Englewood - one of Chicago's most dramatic falls from grace, this was once a wealthy neighborhood with a thriving shopping district at par with Magnificent Mile. The Great Depression took a heavy toll on it, and it has only gotten worse since. Today, its shopping strip is virtually abandoned, the once-majestic homes are decaying and the population shrinks every year. After most South Side housing projects were demolished, Englewood became one of the most crime-ridden neighborhoods in Chicago by default. There have been lot of redevelopment and gentrification attempts, but nothing took.
* Back of the Yards - former site of the Union Stockyards (which, in turn, figured prominently in Upton Sinclar's ''The Jungle''). Originally dominated by Poles and other Eastern European immigrants, it became a Mexican-American neighborhood in 1970s.
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* Chatham - a middle-class enclave since the 1920s, it transitioned from a white majority to a black majority with little difficulty. Its shopping areas are spotty at best, but the residential homes are pretty nice. While there is some concern about the rising crime, crime rates still pale in comparison to the greater South Side averages.
* Beverly - a former luxury resort for the wealthy, this distant neighborhood redefined itself as one of Chicago's few remaining Irish neighborhoods. Its residents fought against White Flight and blockbusting while trying to make black feel welcome. The resulting neighborhood is similar to Hyde Park, except with better architecture, a more suburban atmosphere and significantly less police presence.
* Calumet Heights - founded by railroad workers, this working-class neighborhood transitioned to black majority pretty late in the game (1970s-1980s). It's fairly safe and reasonably comfortable. Pill Hill, an upper-class black enclave, is located right in the middle of it.
* Pullman - a company town built by George Pullman, a rail car magnate, it was supposed to be an ideal workers' settlement - except George Pullman was an authoritarian prick who didn't mind screwing his employees over. The whole thing ended in a strike that had to be out down with federal troops. Since then, Pullman has been a working-class, multi-racial neighborhood that is fairly safe, yet fairly isolated - a few restaurants, virtually no businesses and no entertainment venues to speak of. Local residents are trying to turn the now-abandoned Pullman factory complex into a museum, but lack of money slows the process to a crawl.
* Mount Greenwood - a predominantly Irish neighborhood, it has become home to many Chicago fire fighters and police officers.
* East Side - a neighborhood near Illinois/Indiana border (you can actually see Gary from there), this working class community is isolated from the rest of Chicago by Calumet River in the north and west and a forest preserve in the south. Many native Chicagoans don't even realize it exists. An Eastern European community with heavy Mexican presence, it doesn't have that much to offer, but it's calm and peaceful.
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* Little Italy - one of Chicago's oldest Italian neighborhood, it is best known for its variety of restaurants and a couple of neat churches. It was once home to Jane Addams Homes, the oldest public housing development in the city.
* University Village - a neighborhood created when UIC demolished the old Maxwell Street neighborhood to pave the way for its South Campus. Lots of Chicagoans are still bitter about it. The neighborhood used to be home to Maxwell Street Market, the city's biggest flea market, but it has since been moved a a few blocks northeast.
* Pilsen - originally established by the many ethnic groups that lived in Austria-Hungary, this working-class neighborhood has since become the city's oldest Mexican neighborhood. The eastern section has seen some gentrification and a burgeoning artist colony. The neighborhood dealt with some major gang problems back in the 1990s, but things have quieted down (mostly).
* East Garfield Park - a poor neighborhood without much to offer except for the eponymous park, which has a pretty neat conservatory. There have been many attempts to gentrify it, but so far, none of them really took. Not to be confused with the more dangerous West Garfield Park.
* Little Village - this Mexican-American neighborhood hovers between working-class and poor. It has a decent commercial district and lots of community organizations, but it also suffers from sizable gang activity that occasionally escalates into full-fledged violence.
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* Wicker Park - originally a middle-class neighborhood settled by Germans and later Poles, it became a Puerto Rican working class neighborhood by 1970s. When the fire swept through River North in 1991, many artists wound up moving to Wicker Park and, before you knew it, it became a magnet for emerging artists. These days, it is thoroughly gentrified, overwhelmingly hip and yet surprisingly diverse - it's just that most of the new residents have middle-class income.
* Bucktown - Wicker Park's historically working class sister neighborhood. When Wicker Park's popularity took off, many artists went to Bucktown, only to find that gentrification followed in their footsteps. It isn't quite as thoroughly gentrified as Wicker Park, but depending on which way the economy goes, this may or may not be true in a few years.
* Ukrainian Village - one of the longer-lasting, most stable ethnic communities in Chicago, this neighborhood has lots of beautiful churches and decent Ukrainian stores. The eastern section has become an entity in its own right as the significantly more gentrified East Village.
* Logan Square - a working class, largely Puerto Rican and Mexican neighborhood, it has reasonable rents, a decent shopping district and surprisingly high crime rates (at least compared to other areas). Also plays home to Bucket O' Blood Books And Records, a book/record store owned by Marc Ruvulo, the owner of legendary local punk label Johann's Face.
* Albany Park - another significant immigrant enclave, this neighborhood plays hosts to over eighty ethnic groups. Most of the local businesses are either Mexican or Korean, which leads people to assume that they make up the majority (they don't).
* Ravenswood - a working class neighborhood that owes its existence to Ravenswood branch of what is now the Brown 'L' line. Has lots of apartment buildings and quite a few pockets of gentrification.
== Far Northwest Side ==
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* Jefferson Park - a working-class neighborhood largely inhabited by Poles and Mexicans. Buses, commuter trains and an 'L' line converge near the middle, so the neighborhood gets lots of through traffic.
** Also home to a large number of Police and Firefighter households.
* Sauganash - a neighborhood that's pretty much a suburb in everything but designation, it is home to most of the city workers mentioned above.
* Norwood Park - a former resort, this middle-to-upper class community is best known for being only Chicago neighborhood to favor Republicans in most elections.
* O'Hare - a blanket term for a community created when Chicago annexed a bunch of land in order to consolidate its claim over the recently built O'Hare Airport. Because the land was purchased by lots, its borders are very confusing. It is mostly made up of office towers, hotels and some 50s era working and middle class housing.
Chicago's most famous mayor was Richard J. Daley, who spent 21 years in the job before dying. Known (among other things) as "The Man On Five" after the floor his office was on. The last of the big "bosses" in U.S. politics, he was allegedly responsible for John F. Kennedy's suspicious Illinois electoral victory in 1960 and built one of the most theatrically corrupt political machines in American history. This machine still exists, though it's more bipartisan and less powerful than it used to be. He was quite good at his job, though prone to [[Malaproper|George W. Bush-style mis-speaking]] and dogged by controversies like the violence surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention. His son is Richard M. Daley, who remained in office for 22 years, surpassing his father in length of tenure and arguably having the same if not a greater amount of clout. In 2010, he decided he'd rather not follow in Dad's footsteps and try to die on the job, so he stepped down after his sixth term--leaving the reins to former [[White House]] Chief of Staff [[Memetic Badass/Real Life|Rahm Emanuel]]. Emanuel took office on May 16, 2011; consensus is that while Daley is a [[Tough Act to Follow]], if anyone could do it, it would be "[[Fan Nickname|Rahmbo]]."
Harpo Studios is home of ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' and conspicuous as one of the only local production firms; history and economics left Chicago stranded between the film companies on the West Coast and the television studios on the East Coast. As a consequence, Chicago has been relatively unexposed in American fiction, especially when compared to the omnipresence of [[New York City]] and [[Los Angeles]]. What little got under the wire tended to be gritty crime dramas that were shot in Toronto. This was mitigated somewhat by the loyalty of Chicago-trained talents (like [[John Hughes]], [[David Mamet]], and legions of Second City improv troupe alumni), who often come back after hitting the big time to make affectionate, gangster-free movies. Lately, a weakening dollar and tax breaks have lured more and more films to the area, leading to an increase in cultural prominence that coincides with the rise of adopted Chicagoan Barack Obama.
Music and radio, on the other hand, have flourished in Chicago. Chicago, thanks to its location on the main route between the Mississippi and the East Coast, and the fact that it was a major destination for Southern blacks migrating north in search of better lives, was was the first city outside of the South to really get hit by the waves of jazz and blues, developing unique styles of both. Various rock and pop bands also hit early, and as for hip-hop...well...let's just say that [[Kanye West|Kanye]] is from Chicago (although he was born in [[Atlanta]]), and leave you to judge for yourself. On the radio front, Chicago is home to the notable [[NPR|WBEZ]]-Chicago, which produces both ''[[This American Life]]'' and ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]''. Another Chicago station, WLUP ("The Loop", a rock station) was responsible (in part) for the original Disco Demolition Night, which had [[Deader Than Disco|a lasting effect]].
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== Chicago Sports Teams ==
* The [[Basketball|Bulls]] led by Michael Jordan in [[The Nineties]] are considered one of, if not the greatest sporting dynasty of all time. After a few years ranging from OK to bad they have resurged on the heels of area native Derrick Rose.
* The [[American Football|Bears]] have remained popular, and it's hard to find anyone who doesn't remember Walter Payton or the team's victory in Super Bowl XX. Unfortunately, this has a habit of creating a fanbase that [[Did Not Do the Research|doesn't really understand]] [[Society Marches On|that winning a Super Bowl in 1985 doesn't lay out a blueprint for victory today]]. Currently lead by the second-winningest Coach in Bears history: Lovie Smith (a controversial Coach for some fans, because he's [[The Stoic]] and not [[The Berserker|Mike Ditka]]), under whose rule the team appeared in Super Bowl XLI (a loss to the Indianapolis Colts) and the 2010-11 NFC Championship Game (a loss to the Green Bay Packers).
* [[Baseball]] loyalties are split between the Cubs on the North Side and White Sox on the South Side. Both teams suffered from legendarily long titles droughts until the Sox won the World Series in 2005, while the Cubs have continued past the 100 year marker with nothing. Each has periods of up and downs, however the last few years, neither has been one to write home about. That said, the [[Fandom Rivalry]] tends to spark interest regardless of how they are actually playing.
* Last, but not least is the [[Ice Hockey|Blackhawks]]. Like the sport itself, the Hawks have classically played last fiddle to the more popular sports and their teams. The Hawks entered a severe [[Dork Age]] in the late 90s, mostly because of a penny-pinching owner, who is most well known for '''not letting Blackhawks games air locally'''. [[It Got Better|However]], the passing of said owner (now in the hands of his son) , along with management changes and hot draft picks, allowed them to win the [[Stanley Cup]] victory in 2010. With success comes popularity, however, and many die-hard fans began to be grumble about [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks|those new, young, ethnically diverse people who have the nerve to claim to be fans of equal value as they are]], and how said interest in the Hawks has increased ticket prices. With a lack of success since then, it remains to be determined if the Hawks are on the verge of a new era for the team, or a return to the last-fiddle role.
Outside of the big five teams, the city and surrounding suburbs are also home to numerous other pro sports clubs that have
* The [[The Beautiful Game|MLS]] Fire won a championship in their first season and have maintained popularity throughout ups and downs over the years. Their stadium, Toyota Park in suburban Bridgeview is one of the first major soccer specific stadiums built in the US. ▼
▲* The [[The Beautiful Game|MLS]] Fire won a championship in their first season and have maintained popularity throughout ups and downs over the years. Their stadium, Toyota Park in suburban Bridgeview is one of the first major soccer specific stadiums built in the US.
* Allstate Arena (formerly Rosemont Horizon<ref>in suburban Rosemont, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|go figure]]</ref>) may as well be considered the world's greatest semi-pro arena. It was built for a planned World Hockey Association expansion that fell through due to the merger into the NHL, but eventually became home to the Wolves of the WHA's [[Spiritual Successor]], the IHL, and has since also become the home of the WNBA's Sky and Arena Football League's Rush.
** The Wolves won two championships in their first 6 seasons which led to a large fan following as their success coincided with the Hawks' [[Dork Age]]. After the IHL folded,the team joined the AHL, the top level of the NHL farm system where they won two more championships remaining unaffiliated. Eventually they became affiliates of the Atlanta Thrashers which led to a slow decline in popularity that continued with the resurgance of the Hawks. Plenty of fans are still there, but it's hard to fill a stadium 3 times the size of the average for the AHL, especially with a thriving NHL team in town. In 2011, with the Thrashers being bought and moved to Winnipeg, the Wolves have now found themselves in the decidely awkward position of being affiliated with the Hawks' [[Arch Enemy]], the Vancouver Canucks leaving many fans conflicted (and just as many hoping to see Roberto Luongo put on waivers).
** The Sky haven't done much in terms of winning but are still as popular as you would expect any other WNBA team to be, and notably were founded without the affiliation of an NBA team.
** The Rush have become somewhat of an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] from being consistantly good<ref>has not missed the playoffs since its inception in 2001 and won the [[Arena Bowl]] in 2006</ref> and being co-owned by legendary Bears coach Mike Ditka.
* Rounding out the list of semi-major teams in Chicago is the women's pro softball Bandits who won their first championship in 2011.
If you haven't figured it out by now Chicago really loves its sports. The fact that it can support at one (if not two) teams in each of the big four (five if you count MLS) leagues, but also have teams in as many secondary leagues that still amass solid fanbases and financial stability is a testament to the city's love with any and all things sporting related.<ref>and then there's college: Northwestern, UIC, DePaul etc. just in the city with U of I, Notre Dame, and others not too far away</ref>
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See also [[Gangsterland]], for the most enduring Chicago trope, and [[Down on the Farm]], for the region surrounding the city.<ref>That is, land outside Chicago suburbia. Many that commute live in the vast array of large suburbs in a forty mile radius of Chicago, otherwise known as [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Chicagoland]].</ref>. It is worth noting however, that as the years go on, the area directly north of Chicago is a lot closer to [[Suburbia]] and Strip Malls than [[Down on the Farm]], as the metropolitan areas of Milwaukee and Chicago continue to grow, causing bordering communities to continue to grow as well. In any other direction however, this is true - with only smaller cities such as Elgin (to the west) and Rockford (to the northwest) breaking up a huge quantity of [[Down on the Farm]] interspersed with [[Everytown, America]].
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{{examples|Chicago in fiction:}}
* ''[[About Last Night]]''
* ''[[According to Jim]]''
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* ''[[American Beauty]]'' -- but this is only noticeable by looking at the area codes seen for various phone numbers in the film (847, which is the Northern Suburbs, and 312, which is Chicago's most well-known area code)
* ''[[Anything But Love]]''
* ''[[Baccano!]]''
* ''[[Backdraft]]''
* ''[[Barbershop]]''
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* ''[[Public Enemies]]''
* ''[[Punky Brewster]]''
* ''[[The Rebel Set]]''- A 1959 movie about an armored car robbery planned during a four hour train stop in Chicago. As seen on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''.
* ''[[Red Heat]]''
* ''[[Return To Me]]''
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* ''[[The Savage Dragon]]''
* ''[[Shake It Up]]''
* ''Shameless'' - the American version, anyway.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' turned Chicago into an insect-spirit-infested wasteland in ''Bug City''.
* ''Siskel & [[Roger Ebert|Ebert]]'' - The opening credits showed the two movie critics from rival Chicago newspapers individually walking through the streets of their home town and meeting in front of a movie theater.
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* ''[[The Vampire Files]]''
* ''[[Wanted]]'' the movie, anyway
* ''[[Wayne's World]]'' was set and partially filmed in Aurora, a Chicagoland suburb.
* ''[[Webster]]''
* ''[[What Women Want]]''
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