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Old 09-22-2011, 10:00 AM
 
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After I found out I'm moving to Chicago I looked this up on iTunes and bought it. I liked it.

Most shows and movies set in Chicago seem to show only a couple of parts of the city: the loop, Gold Coast/Michigan Ave, and a random impoverished neighborhood with burned out buildings or the projects. This show had more going on in the more ordinary parts of the city. It showed what looked like the neighborhoods I drive through when I rent a car at Midway and look for a restaurant before leaving town. Or the neighborhoods I used to drive between the southwest suburbs and Hyde Park when I got bored and took random streets going the right direction.

But it also looked like they went out of their way to include el tracks in almost every scene. I guess that was their way of letting the audience know it's Chicago.

BTW: every time they showed Alderman Gibbons office, I thought it looked like someplace on the U of C campus. Does city hall, or some city office building look like that?
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