The Windy City: Chicago on the Small and Big Screen
Movies and TV shows set and/or filmed in Chicago, whether fully or partially.
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- CreatorMichael BrandtDerek HaasStarsTaylor KinneyChristian StolteEamonn WalkerThe story of firefighters and paramedics in the city of Chicago, both on a personal and professional level.The trials and tribulations of a Chicago firefighter crew.
- CreatorMichael BrandtDerek HaasMatt OlmsteadStarsMarlyne BarrettS. Epatha MerkersonOliver PlattThe city's most highly skilled medical team saves lives, while navigating their unique interpersonal relationships.Set at a Chicago hospital.
- 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.Obviously set in Chicago, revolving around the police department.
- CreatorDavid E. KelleyStarsMandy PatinkinAdam ArkinHector ElizondoThe lives and trials of the staff of a major hospital in Chicago.Set in a hospital in Chicago.
- DirectorRob MarshallStarsRenée ZellwegerCatherine Zeta-JonesRichard GereTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.Can you guess where it's set?
- DirectorJohn LandisStarsJohn BelushiDan AykroydCab CallowayJake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.Filmed and set in Chicago.
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsKevin CostnerSean ConneryRobert De NiroDuring Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.Set in Chicago during the Prohibition era. A sort of life story of the notorious gangster, Al Capone.
- DirectorTom HollandStarsCatherine HicksChris SarandonAlex VincentA struggling single mother unknowingly gifts her son a doll imbued with a serial killer's consciousness.Filmed and set in Chicago.
- DirectorBernard RoseStarsVirginia MadsenXander BerkeleyTony ToddThe Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.While this movie version is set in 1990s Chicago, the original short story was actually set in Liverpool, England!
- DirectorJohn HughesStarsMatthew BroderickAlan RuckMia SaraA popular high school student, admired by his peers, decides to take a day off from school and goes to extreme lengths to pull it off, to the chagrin of his Dean, who'll do anything to stop him.Set in and around Chicago.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsPaul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.Set in Chicago in the 1930s.
- DirectorRobert SchwentkeStarsEric BanaRachel McAdamsRon LivingstonHenry DeTamble, a librarian, possesses a unique gene that lets him involuntarily travel through time. His wife, Claire Abshire, finds it difficult to cope with it.Mostly set in Chicago (or at least, the original novel was).
- DirectorPatrick Read JohnsonStarsLara Flynn BoyleJoe MantegnaJoe PantolianoAfter three kidnappers lose the baby they have kidnapped, both the cops and kidnappers go looking for the baby.Set in Chicago.
- DirectorHarold BeckerStarsBruce WillisMiko HughesAlec BaldwinShadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.After opening in South Dakota, most of the rest of the movie is set in Chicago.
- DirectorRaja GosnellStarsAlex D. LinzOlek KrupaRya KihlstedtAlex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy living in Chicago, must fend off international spies who seek a top-secret computer chip in his toy car.Set in Chicago, after the second one was set in New York.
- DirectorPaul WeitzStarsBen StillerTeri PoloRobert De NiroFamily-patriarch Jack Byrnes wants to appoint a successor. Does his son-in-law, the male nurse Greg Focker, have what it takes?Partially set in Chicago.
- DirectorJon TurteltaubStarsSandra BullockBill PullmanPeter GallagherA hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority ticket booth operator is mistaken for the fiancée of a comatose patient.Set in Chicago.
- DirectorGeorge C. WolfeStarsViola DavisChadwick BosemanGlynn TurmanTensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.Set in Chicago in 1927.
- CreatorLena WaitheStarsJason MitchellJacob LatimoreNtare Guma Mbaho MwineFrom Emmy® winner Lena Waithe, The Chi is a timely coming-of-age drama series centered on a group of residents who become linked by coincidence but bonded by the need for connection and redemption.Set in the South Side of Chicago, hence the name ("Chi" or "Chi-Town" is a popular nickname for Chicago).
- 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.Set in Chicago.
- CreatorMichelle KingRobert KingPhil Alden RobinsonStarsChristine BaranskiSarah SteeleNyambi NyambiWhen Diane Lockhart's life savings are lost, she must start from scratch at a new firm.Set in Chicago, as with the preceding series, The Good Wife.