Kimberly O'Brien: Best Chicago TV Shows
Kim O'Brien's top 25 TV shows set in or about Chicago!
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- CreatorTracy NewmanJonathan StarkStarsJim BelushiCourtney Thorne-SmithLarry Joe CampbellA television show centered around a macho everyman, his loving wife, and their three precocious children.
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsMandy PatinkinAdam ArkinHector ElizondoThe lives and trials of the staff of a major hospital in Chicago.
- CreatorPaul HaggisStarsPaul GrossBeau StarrTony CraigThe adventures of an impossibly upright Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable and his American colleagues in the city of Chicago.
- CreatorMike EvansNorman LearEric MonteStarsJa'net DuBoisRalph CarterBernNadette StanisA poor family make the best of things in the Chicago housing projects.
- CreatorCharlie HauckStarsJason BatemanJeremy LichtDan PonceOriginally is was the saga of a working mom raising her three sons alone while her pilot husband was away, but after star Valerie Harper left, Sandy Duncan stepped in as the boys' aunt.
- CreatorMichael BravermanStarsKellie MartinChris BurkePatti LuPoneA modern All-American family deals with the struggles of life and love in mid-western suburbia.
- CreatorDale McRavenStarsBronson PinchotMark Linn-BakerMelanie WilsonA high-strung and cynical man's life is never the same when his naive but good-natured cousin comes to America to live with him.
- CreatorWilliam BickleyRobert L. BoyettThomas L. MillerStarsReginald VelJohnsonJaleel WhiteDarius McCraryThe Winslow family deals with various misadventures, many of them caused by their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel.
- CreatorCecelia AhernDonald ToddStarsChristina ApplegateJennifer EspositoKevin DunnA woman suffers from amnesia and is forced to find out who she really is.
- CreatorDavid W. DuclonStarsSoleil Moon FryeGeorge GaynesCherie JohnsonYoung Punky Brewster is abandoned with her dog, Brandon, in a supermarket. When she befriends Henry Warnimont, her new family life begins.
- CreatorPaul T. ScheuringStarsDominic PurcellWentworth MillerAmaury NolascoA structural engineer installs himself in a prison he helped design, in order to save his falsely accused brother from a death sentence by breaking themselves out from the inside.
- CreatorDavid DavisLorenzo MusicStarsBob NewhartSuzanne PleshetteBill DailyThe professional and personal misadventures of a psychologist and his family, patients, friends and colleagues.
- CreatorAaron McGruderStarsRegina KingJohn WitherspoonGary Anthony WilliamsBrothers Huey and Riley Freeman experience a culture clash when they leave Chicago to move in with their grandfather in the suburbs.
- CreatorShawn RyanStarsJason ClarkeJennifer BealsMatt LauriaDetective Jarek Wysocki, one of Chicago's toughest cops, struggles to clean up the town's violence and corruption.
- CreatorMichael BrandtDerek HaasMatt OlmsteadStarsJason BeghePatrick John FluegerMarina SquerciatiFollows District 21 of the Chicago Police Department, made up of two different groups: the uniformed cops and the Intelligence Unit.
- CreatorMichael BrandtDerek HaasStarsTaylor KinneyChristian StolteEamonn WalkerThe story of firefighters and paramedics in the city of Chicago, both on a personal and professional level.
- CreatorIan AbramsBob BrushPatrick Q. PageStarsKyle ChandlerShanesia DavisFisher StevensHis name is Gary Hobson. He gets tomorrow's newspaper today. He doesn't know how. He doesn't know why. All he knows is when the early edition hits his doorstep, he has twenty-four hours to set things right.
- CreatorSally SussmanStarsKelly RutherfordKristoff St. JohnJoan PringleSoap opera about two families, one black and one white.
- CreatorMichelle KingRobert KingStarsJulianna MarguliesChris NothJosh CharlesAlicia Florrick has been a good wife to her husband, a former state's attorney. After a very humiliating sex and corruption scandal, he is behind bars. She must now provide for her family and returns to work as a litigator in a law firm.
- CreatorDavid CaspeStarsEliza CoupeElisha CuthbertZachary KnightonThis Chicago-set sitcom follows the intertwined lives of six young urbanites trying to learn the ropes of adulthood. Through breakups and whatever other curve-balls life throws them, the pals stick together.
- CreatorKim BassStarsKenan ThompsonKel MitchellKen ForeeKenan and Kel: two best friends who live in Chicago are always dragged down by Kenan's get rich quick schemes while orange soda-loving buddy Kel is dragged along but tends to mess things up.
- CreatorBonnie HuntDon LakeStarsBonnie HuntMark DerwinDavid Alan GrierLocal TV show host Bonnie Molloy has the life of a sort-of celebrity. Sometimes her fans actually remember her name. But when it comes to her family life, a little fame goes a long way. Especially when her husband and children catch a glimmer of themselves in the supposedly true anecdotes mom tells her morning viewers.
- CreatorRon LeavittMichael G. MoyeStarsEd O'NeillChristina ApplegateKatey SagalAl is the quintessential working class dad. Peggy, his wife, always wants more from him. With their children, they go through the highs and lows of ordinary life.
- CreatorBetsy ThomasStarsJordana SpiroKyle HowardReid ScottA female sports columnist in Chicago deals with the men in her life including her brother, her best friend and a sportswriter for a rival publication.
- CreatorRon CowenDaniel LipmanStarsSwoosie KurtzPatricia KalemberSela WardFollows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family living in Winnetka, Illinois.