Candyman (1992) - based on a book originally set in London.
Bugsy Malone (1976) (partly in Chicago) (mob film).
Beginning of the End (1957) – set in downstate Illinois and Chicago.
Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) (#1 film in U.S.).
Barbershop (2002) (box office #1 film in the U.S.).
Backdraft (1991) (box office #1 film in the U.S.).
The Accountant (2016) - partly in Chicago (box office #1 film in the U.S.).
A Raisin in the Sun - nominated for four Tony Awards in 1960.
Mean Girls - musical, nominated for 12 Tony Awards in 2018.
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?.
Chicago - musical, nominated for ten Tony Awards in 1976.
"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.
The Coast of Chicago: Stories by Stuart Dybek, 2004.
Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions by Michael Czyzniejewski, Jacob S Knabb and Rob Funderburk, 2012.
"Deadly City," March, 1953 issue of If magazine under the pseudonym Ivar Jorgensen (later made into the motion picture Target Earth the story was about an alien invasion and evacuation of Chicago).
Veronica Roth, Divergent - #1 on the Children's Paperback list in 2012.
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie ISBN 0-7 on Modern Library's 100 Best Novels.
Stuart Dybek, The Coast of Chicago ISBN 5-6.
Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge ISBN 1-4000-3420-5.
Sherwood Anderson, Windy McPherson's Son.
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March ISBN 0-14-018941-6.
Sara Paretsky, thrillers featuring private eye V.I.
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street ISBN 5-X.
Twista hope in movies series#
Robert Wright Campbell, Jimmy Flannery mystery series.
Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!.
Robert Goldsborough, Three Strikes You're Dead.
Robert Goldsborough, Terror at the Fair ISBN 978-1-59080-672-2.
Robert Goldsborough, Shadow of the Bomb.
Robert Goldsborough, President in Peril ISBN 978-1-59080-616-6.
Richard Wright, Native Son #20 on Modern Library's 100 Best Novels.
Richard Powers, Generosity: An Enhancement.
Paul Krueger, Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge ISBN 978-1594747595.
Nelson Algren, The Man With the Golden Arm ISBN 1-58322-008-9.
Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End ISBN 978-8-4.
John Grisham, The Litigators (a #1 New York Times Best Seller in 2011).
Jerry Ahern, The Survivalist Series - The early books of the series feature Chicago frequently as the Soviets build their HQ in Chicago, with Varakov setting up his HQ in the Museum of Natural History.
James Patterson and David Ellis, The Black Book (Patterson and Ellis novel).
Harry Stephen Keeler, The Riddle of the Traveling Skull ISBN 1-93.
Ed Wagemann, " The Panty Thief of Bridgeport".
Recognizably Chicago, even if never explicitly stated.
Daniel Pinkwater, The Education of Robert Nifkin Snarkout Boys and The Avocado of Death, Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror.
Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth.
Charles Blackstone, The Week You Weren't Here.
Brandy Colbert, The Revolution of Birdie Randolph.
Bob Hartley, North and Central ISBN 978-0986092282.
Bob Hartley, Following Tommy ISBN 978-0983104186.
Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer and The Wright 3.
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife ISBN 0-15-602943-X.