Chicago.

It's a fact: It's the greatest city in the history of mankind*.

*Or maybe I'm thinking of this city.

Good thing it isn't like this all year:


Briefly, some of the best films centered around a city that -- despite a reasonably long list of movies set there -- still gets underplayed on the big screen.

Of course, this one:




This one's among the best ... even if the city itself doesn't figure so prominently:

***NSFW***



Who could forget this one?




And then there's my favorite, for multiple reasons: The Weather Man (also pictured above). As Chicago goes, no film I've seen better captures the city's oddly life-affirming winter bleakness.