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List of fiction set in Chicago

This is a list of fiction set in or near the city of Chicago.

Novels

Short stories

  • Chicago Invaded by Hordes of Prehistoric Monsters Dealing Death and Destruction, an anonymous 9000 word short story published by the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers as an April Fools prank in 1906.
  • "Deadly City," March, 1953 issue of If magazine under the pseudonym Ivar Jorgensen (later made into the motion picture Target Earth; the story is about an alien invasion and evacuation of Chicago)
  • "About Boston" by Ward Just. pp. 12–39 in Legal Fictions edited by Jay Wishingrad, 1992, reprinted from 21 Selected Stories by Just (1990). The story contrasts Boston and Chicago.
  • "Big Boy," pp. 97–99 in Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris begins "It was Easter Sunday in Chicago....", 2000
  • Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions by Michael Czyzniejewski, Jacob S Knabb and Rob Funderburk, 2012
  • The Coast of Chicago: Stories by Stuart Dybek, 2004
  • Chicago Style Novella by R. Felini, 2013
  • "The Box of Robbers" a fairy tale by Lyman Frank Baum, reprinted in American Fairy Tales by Lyman Frank Baum, English Classical Literature, KAPO, 2015. Original, 1901. .

Plays and musicals

Films

Although not set in the city's limits, the John Hughes directed films Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink (1986) (#1 film in U.S.), and Weird Science take place in the fictional town of Shermer, Illinois, which is based on Northbrook, Illinois. A scene of Weird Science was filmed at Northbrook Court mall.

In The Matrix (1999, directed by the Wachowskis from Chicago), the subway sets were based on the CTA. One of the trains is clearly a Brown Line train, which in reality, barring construction, never goes underground.

Chicago destroyed on film

  • In Old Chicago (1938) - destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire
  • Beginning of the End (1957) - city attacked by giant mutant grasshoppers
  • Independence Day (1996) - mentioned
  • Chain Reaction (1996) - parts of the city destroyed by an explosion caused by a hydrogen reactor
  • ' (2004) - destroyed by a series of tornadoes and a category 6 hurricane over the Great Lakes
  • ' (2011) - seriously damaged by the Decepticons' assault on the city as well as the final battle between the Autobots and Decepticons (#1 film in U.S.)
  • ' (2014) - the city was rebuilt five years later, where it was used for KSI first (#1 in U.S.)

Music videos

Television shows

Reality TV

  • ' (2002)
  • ' (2014–2015)

Video games

This is a list of video games in which a major part of the action takes place in the city. This list does not count sports games or flight simulators, save for Pilotwings 64 and Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

List of games which feature a fictional city closely based on Chicago

  • In ', as a fictionalized Gotham City in which is almost identical to Chicago: for example some of the buildings like Tribune Tower can be seen within the Arkham franchise. The city also serves as Gotham within the Injustice series as well.
  • In Mafia, 1930s Chicago serves as inspiration for the setting of Lost Heaven. In ', it is confirmed that Lost Heaven is in Illinois.
  • In Mortal Kombat, Chicago plays a dynamic level known as "street" in which the level appears most of the MK series.
  • In Ratchet & Clank, in this fictional utopian city of Aleero City, some of the buildings have a huge representation of Chicago's magnificent skyscrapers bundled up together.
  • In Halo, Chicago in Halo 2 is the multiplayer map known as Foundation.

Comics, manga, and cartoons

Miniseries, specials or individual episodes

See also

References

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