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- The story of firefighters and paramedics in the city of Chicago, both on a personal and professional level.
- Follows District 21 of the Chicago Police Department, made up of two different groups: the uniformed cops and the Intelligence Unit.
- The city's most highly skilled medical team saves lives, while navigating their unique interpersonal relationships.
- Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
- The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
- The lives and trials of the staff of a major hospital in Chicago.
- The State's Attorney's dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators navigates heated city politics and controversy head-on, while fearlessly pursuing justice.
- Detective Jarek Wysocki, one of Chicago's toughest cops, struggles to clean up the town's violence and corruption.
- Follows Diane Dunbrowski who is always the life of the party, and also known as the "Chicago Party Aunt".
- Writers that lived under Japanese rule in the 1930s are reincarnated into a bestselling writer who is in a slump, a mysterious ghostwriter, and a devoted fan of the bestselling writer.
- The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
- The O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
- On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.
- During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.
- In Evanstown, a suburb of Chicago, two pizza places have competed for the town's business for years but when a new pizza chain moves into town, the new bosses struggle to continue the rivalry after they begin to fall for one another.
- Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
- Black Ink Crew: Chicago follows a passionate and ambitious group of tattoo artists and friends through the unforgiving streets of Chicago as they band together to create new identities for themselves, their families, and their business.
- To escape sinful impulses, Ben Harvey, a callow youth, leaves his small town for Chicago in 1910. A pickpocket promptly relieves him of his money, and he nearly starves before Queen Lil takes him under her wing, gives him a room in her high-class bordello, and gets him a job at a newspaper. He's so sweet and dumb, he thinks Lil's is a boarding house. He's soon caught up in an electoral struggle between a secretly corrupt reformer and an openly corrupt councilman. Can Ben expose corruption or will he be caught up in allure of power? An alcoholic investigative reporter and the bordello's ingénue try to help him grow up.
- Chicago housing system segregated Black families, diminishing their wealth for generations.Uncovering overlooked history, the resistance against discrimination, and how these policies deepened the national racial wealth gap.
- There is more to this story than this review lets on. It reflects all different facets of society over one driver's shift. As he starts out, he seems cold and ignorant, but his character develops as different Chicago riders come and go. His character shows through when he tells a woman the truth about one of the guys he has in his cab. One highlight is the amount of cameos by well-known faces who seem to be doing this film for the craic (fun, "kicks"). The cab driver reacts well to the madness surrounding him, and by the end of the shift the viewer might share his weariness. This low-budget film deals with crackheads, stoners, posh randy lawyers, irate Pakistanis, and the high and lows of the working day.
- In Chicago, a crime syndicate tries to take over a labor union by killing its whistle blower treasurer and framing the honest union boss for the murder.
- A wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart, kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her.
- A comprehensive, chronological and historical documentary series on the entire life and crimes of the infamous serial killer, John Wayne Gacy.
- Eddie Jones (Courtney B. Vance) is an agent with the U.S. State Department's elite Eliminator Corps. He eliminates people the government doesn't want around. Eddie also needs to change his life.
- Eight anti-war protesters go on trial for conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
- In 1960, a group of white teenage Chicago musicians traveled to the city's southside music clubs to learn the blues from the original masters. This is their story.
- A film based on the notorious mass killer Richard Speck, who systematically tortured, raped and murdered a group of student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.
- The three Kulchak brothers live together in a Chicago building on Sheffield Avenue across from Wrigley Field: newly-divorced Mike; Harry, desperately in love with unavailable co-worker Lindsay; and Billy, who is always plotting get-rich-quick scams.
- In Chicago, the police are man-hunting a serial killer of blonde women and end-up car-chasing him through the complex maze of state highways.
- The history of legendary rock band Chicago is chronicled from their inception in 1967 all the way to the present.
- A former military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with her own agenda.
- Rocco Papaleo, an optimistic and kind man from a mining town in Alaska, gets away from his company during a trip to Chicago and is increasingly disillusioned in the face of the city's hostility.
- One of the city's largest and oldest establishments in the pawn and gold-buying business, Royal Pawn Shop is owned by Randy and Wayne Cohen, two brothers who don't always see eye to eye, except when it comes to finding the best deals for the business. These over-the-top siblings will wheel and deal with just about anyone, from a sweet kindergarten teacher to an intimidating mob boss.
- The story of a group of Milton Friedman's disciples that, backed by a military dictatorship, turned Chile into the first and most extreme neoliberal country in the world.
- This is the story of three lawyers, a street cop, two detectives, and two doctors in the Windy city. And how an incident or person's life is affected by one or more of these people.
- East Chicago, Indiana, an industrial city home to over 70 nationalities and an unrivaled basketball tradition. This is a story of history, heartbreak, and triumph. This is a celebration of the greatest basketball city in a basketball crazed state.
- Aunt Calliopi returns to Greece from Chicago after 30 years and plans to marry off her nieces.
- A dramatized historical recreation of the Chicago Conspiracy trial with present testimonies by many of the participants.
- A poor father makes monumental efforts to get money to keep his phone installed, so he can get word on his critically injured little daughter.
- After years of rotting in Joliet, Les, a wrongfully imprisoned street legend known as "The Ghoul", is released into a mad search through Chicago's back alleys for the man who slaughtered his mother and robbed him of his soul. Aided by mysterious benefactors, he must delve beneath the city into a modern labyrinth of gutters whose tendrils have grown deep while he was gone. What unfolds is a desperate tale of brute force tragedy set in the supernatural underworld of Chicago, where heroes are reduced to horror-shows, villains dream of their own demise, and good and evil prove to be antiquated concepts.
- With its high murder rate, the town of Gastonia, N.C., has earned itself the nickname "Little Chicago." Cal returns home to Gastonia after college to find his childhood best friend Andre in deep with a local drug dealer.
- Comedic battle between an honest man and his mobster cousin over a Chicago speakeasy.
- Five women allegedly connected to "The Outfit," Chicago's version of the Mob, bear the cross for the sins of their Mob-associated fathers. Along the way these women battle their friends, families and each other.
- Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
- In this parody of detective and gangster films two veteran detectives who were former policemen get involve in mafia world. One of them gets the job from mafia boss to follow his suspicious wife
- Harry and Ede always have brilliant plans to raise money. They want to steal gold from a dental practice, sell pedigree dogs for expensive money, or sell earrings as rare collectibles. Their brilliant plans fail every time.
- What happens when a mixed-income housing 'experiment' collides with reality? Filmed over 15-years, 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green looks at the demolition of Chicago's most infamous public housing development, Cabrini Green. The film centers on the stories of three public housing residents, Mark, Deidre and Raymond, as their lives are turned upside down when their community is torn apart in the name of progress. Cabrini is being demolished as part of a national plan to replace public housing with mixed income communities. Critics contend that the motivation is economic gain, as public housing's prime real estate is too valuable for the low-income Black communities that live there. The film chronicles a neighborhood upheaval on Chicago's most hotly contested 70 acres of land.