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This month marks Chicago's 180th anniversary. Happy birthday, Chicago!

Meet the clown who dominated Chicago’s airwaves for generations of kids

With more than 5.3 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a …

The riotous Cooley High is a Chicago movie for people who really live here

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres. Since it’s Chicago…

“A great time to be alive and own a guitar”: Chicago’s 1990s alt-rock explosion

Nirvana’s Nevermind came out in 1991 and became a veritable sensation, selling millions of albums…

Before Bonnie And Clyde, Arthur Penn and Warren Beatty brought the New Wave to Chicago

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres. Since it’s Chicago…

America’s gangland: How Chicago became a cultural capital of crime

The thing outsiders know about Chicago is crime. The mobsters, the street drug gangs, the corrupt…

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Michael Mann’s Thief captured Chicago in all its neon, gritty glory

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres. Since it’s Chicago…

Want to appreciate the original Home Alone? Watch the terrible sequels

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve…

The Second(-Billed) City: 19 great Chicago character actors

Chicago is a “that guy” kind of town, its very history shaped by political machines and criminal…

My Bodyguard offers a nostalgic postcard of Chicago’s North Side

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Chicago’s crime of the century has inspired 4 movies—so far

Decades before the O.J. Simpson case, there was already a “crime of the century” for the 1900s. Now …

12 foods (and 1 unpleasant-tasting liqueur) forever synonymous with Chicago

Chicago gave America improv comedy, the notion of long-suffering sports franchises, Playboy, the…

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John Hughes’ Uncle Buck is the sentient version of the Chicago he loves

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres. Since it’s Chicago…

High Fidelity captured the snob’s—and the soundtrack’s—waning powers

“What really matters is what you like, not what you are like,” John Cusack’s Rob Gordon declares…

The A.V. Club celebrates its hometown with Chicago Week

Chicago has been getting a lot of grief as of late, with our so-called president recently…

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Elizabeth Montgomery ruled Chicago in one of The Untouchables’ best episodes

A single television episode can exemplify the spirit of its time. A Very Special Episode presents…

When Chicago was the black Hollywood

If you happen to be in the United States and you have Netflix, check out a set that’s currently…

What the Chicagoland of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off looks like 30 years later

June 11 is the 30th anniversary of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off being released in theaters, forever…

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