The riotous Cooley High is a Chicago movie for people who really live here
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“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 and signifying to…
Before Bonnie And Clyde, Arthur Penn and Warren Beatty brought the New Wave to Chicago
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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 operators—these are…
Michael Mann’s Thief captured Chicago in all its neon, gritty glory
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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 with each new…
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 syndicates whose…
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 nearly a century…
John Hughes’ Uncle Buck is the sentient version of the Chicago he loves
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Elizabeth Montgomery ruled Chicago in one of The Untouchables’ best episodes
In the first half of the 20th century, before the the feminist movement and sexual revolution made it more acceptable…
Swipe right for Jane The Virgin tonight
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, March 27. All times are Eastern.
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 threatening to send in the…
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 midway through High…
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 streaming called Pioneer…
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 changing the way we…