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Song
It rhymes with Shmordan.
Chef Athlete
Dumb law
Local food Actor
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Iconic store Band
Wilco? Nope.
Concert Album Conductor
Windy city
Daley legacy
Building
madness
DJ Architect
Rapper
Novel
Meet the ultimate champions of Chicago culture, sports and politics
Dancer
Gayborhood Comedian It ain’t Boystown.
Gay moment
Political scandal Dumbest law
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Tournament of
champions Most iconic food
What’s the most iconic Chicago food? Which of our city’s many corruption scandals is the most mortifying? And really, can we finally agree on who was the best athlete to grace a Chicago playing field or court? Narrowing down the contenders via NCAA tourney–style brackets seems like a fair way to pick the ultimate victor, but our choices may surprise you. 1
Italian beef 1
Deep-dish pizza
Deep-dish pizza 2
Chicagostyle hot dog Chicago-style hot dog Chicago-style hot dog
Eli’s cheesecake
1 Honestly, when was the last time you had an Italian beef? [Ed. note: weekly.] 2 The snap of casing, the heat of sport peppers, the crunch of the pickle: Other cities have Uno’s, but the Chicago dog is our true local treasure.
1 Hint: You might not want to bet on Wilco taking the trophy for best Chicago band.
best athlete Michael Jordan, Bulls
Scottie Pippen, Bulls
Dick Butkus, 1 Bears
Brian Urlacher, Bears
Michael Jordan
Bobby Hull, Blackhawks
Stan Mikita, Blackhawks
Scottie Pippen
Billy Williams, Cubs
Stan Mikita
Walter Payton, Bears Hack Wilson, Cubs
Bobby Hull
Sammy Sosa, Cubs
Derrick Rose, Bulls
Walter Payton
Ernie Banks, Cubs
Frank Thomas, White Sox
Sammy Sosa
Gale Sayers, Bears Billy Pierce, White Sox
Bronko 2 Nagurski, Bears
Gale Sayers
Ernie Banks
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Michael Jordan
sStan Mikita
Michael Jordan
Ernie Banks
Walter Payton
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1 We’re holding that sitcom career against Butkus. Forever. 2 Nagurski is the only player to be an all-pro at three non-kicking positions, but that’s not enough to get by Sayers. 3 Hawks fans could argue this one all day, but Stosh has the stats.
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While March Madness rages, Chicago has its own hotly contested battles.
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Most iconic Chicago film
Medium Cool
The Untouchables Medium Cool
The Untouchables
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Chicago 10
Road to Perdition Medium Cool
The Untouchables
Thief Public Enemies
1
Red Heat The Dark Knight The Dark Knight
Public Enemies
Hoop Dreams
The Untouchables
Child’s Play
Risky Business
Hoop Dreams
Risky Business
Candyman
Adventures in Babysitting
Candyman
Ordinary People 2
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Hoop Dreams
Hoop Dreams
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Hoop Dreams
Flatliners
The Color of Money Mickey One
Hoop Dreams 8
Chain Reaction Chain Reaction
Mickey One Mad Dog & Glory
The Fugitive
The Blues Brothers The Blues Brothers
Above the Law The Fugitive
The Blues Brothers
The Untouchables
Cooley High
The Fugitive The Blues Brothers
The Fugitive
Within Our Gates
High Fidelity
Within Our Gates
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Eight Men Out Call Northside 777
High Fidelity 7
Call Northside 777
High Fidelity
Call Northside 777
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Wicker Park About Last Night… The Breakup
City that Never Sleeps
The Breakup
1 Michael Mann deserves a bracket of his own. 2 Both are iconic suburban movies, but Ferris actually hauls his ass downtown. 3 Two responses to 1919 Chicago scandals: Eight Men Out recounts the Black Sox’s thrown World Series, while Within Our Gates, largely set in the South, was a reaction to the city’s race riots. 4 Chicago 10 remembers the 1968 protests; Medium Cool was actually there. 5 This is the Cabrini-Green commemorative bracket. Candyman uses the projects glibly, but Hoop Dreams beats with the pulse of urban life. 6 You could change High Fidelity’s title to Wicker Park and Wicker Park’s title to High Bullshit. 7 In the battle of Chicago breakup movies, the one with top-five lists comes out on top. 8 Hoop Dreams is not just a movie but life; not just Chicago but America.
Most embarrassing corruption scandal 4 Ogden Gas Company Scheme
Blagogate
Blagogate
Haunted Hall Blagogate
Gambat 1
5 Haunted Hall
gate Blago photo: bottom, Jeff Roberson/ap
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License for Bribes
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License for Bribes
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Hired Truck
7 Silver Shovel
1 The 1980s federal corruption investigation proved connections between organized crime in the old 1st Ward, City Hall and the courts. 2 Widespread corruption in the Secretary of State’s office during the ’90s involved DMV employees issuing commercial driver’s licenses for bribes; charges led to some 70 convictions, including former Gov. George Ryan, who’s served about half of a six-and-a-half-year sentence on racketeering, tax fraud, conspiracy and lying to the FBI. 3 In the early ’80s, 50 lawyers and 15 Cook County court judges were convicted after FBI moles bribed judges to fix fake cases and planted wire-taps in judges’ chambers. 4 In 1895, the Gray Wolves, a corrupt clique in the City Council (imagine!), awarded the city’s lucrative gas utility contract to Ogden Gas Company, a fake firm invented by the aldermen. They enticed the previous contract holder to buy up the rights to Ogden. 5 This 1990s federal probe into ghost payrolling centered on 39th Ward Ald. Anthony Laurino, who hired as many as 35 family members and friends. Among the 35 convicted were three aldermen and a state senator. 6 Clout-heavy (and some mob-connected) trucking firms were paid to do little or no city work. An investigation sparked by a 2004 Sun-Times piece yielded more than 40 convictions, including Mayor Daley’s former patronage chief Robert Sorich and former City Clerk Jim Laski. 7 Working as a mole for the FBI in the early ’90s, a Chicago construction-business insider bribed city officials to put his phantom company to work. Convictions included six aldermen, a Chicago water commissioner and the president of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. 8 A bleepin’ golden orgy of shame
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Most important band
Shoes Smashing Pumpkins
Fingers Inc. Crucial Conflict
1
Smashing Pumpkins
Cheap Trick
Crucial Conflict
Chicago Cheap Trick
Ministry
Molemen
Cheap Trick Ministry
The Impressions
Ministry The Impressions
Sun Ra’s Arkestra Art Ensemble of Chicago
Wilco
The s Impression
The Impressions
Tortoise
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2 Wilco
Jesus Lizard
Wilco Naked Raygun
The Impressions
Naked Raygun
Staple Singers
1 Rockford’s a suburb, right? 2 Jeff Tweedy helped shape the altcountry scene, before turning his band into an art-rock ensemble, and later a jam act. 3 Curtis Mayfield’s Impressions rocketed doo-wop out of its teenage phase, experimenting with harmony, rhythm and social commentary to define American soul music.
Staple Singers
John Mahoney John Mahoney Danny Pudi John Mahoney
Bill Murray
Wilco
All-time greatest actor
Francis Guinan Francis Guinan Aidan Quinn
Francis Guinan
Bill Murray 1
Chi McBride Mike Nussbaum Mike Nussbaum
Joseph Jefferson
Vince Vaughn
John C. Reilly Vince Vaughn John C. Reilly
Dennis Franz Jennifer Beals
William H. Macy
John C. Reilly
Francis Guinan
4 Charlie Chaplin
Jeff Garlin Jeff Garlin
K. Todd Freeman K. Todd Freeman
Jeff Garlin
Amy Morton
Bonnie Hunt Laurie Metcalf Laurie Metcalf
Jim Belushi
Jacqueline Williams
Virginia Madsen Jacqueline Williams
John Malkovich 2
Gary Sinise Gary Sinise
Dennis Farina
Amy Morton
John Malkovich
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Gary Sinise Bernie Mac
John Malkovich
Joe Mantegna
Harrison Ford Amy Morton
Amy Morton
William H. Macy
Joe Mantegna Mary Beth Fisher
Amy Morton Amy Morton Joan Allen Joan Cusack Joan Cusack
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William H. Macy
1 Bill, we love you, but two Garfield movies? 2 Our brackets come at a bad time for being John Malkovich—Secretariat’s still fresh in our minds. 3 Morton’s most recent credit: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Reilly’s: Cedar Rapids. 4 Chaplin made a dozen or so silent shorts for Chicago’s Essanay studio in 1915, but only one was filmed here.
Mandy Patinkin William H. Macy William H. Macy
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most important chef Edna Stewart (Edna’s)
Charlie Trotter (Trotter’s)
Grant Achatz (Alinea, Next, Aviary)
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Jason Hammel (Nightwood, Lula Cafe)
Mindy Segal (HotChocolate)
Takashi Yagihashi (Takashi)
Arun Sampanthavivat (Arun’s)
Graham Elliot (graham elliot, Grahamwich)
Jean Banchet (Le Francais) Doug Sohn (Hot Doug’s)
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Bill Kim (Urbanbelly, Belly Shack)
Stephanie Izard (Girl & the Goat)
Shawn McClain (Green Zebra; formerly of Spring, Custom House)
Paul Kahan (Blackbird, Avec, Big Star)
Rick Tramonto/Gale Gand (Tru)
Rick Bayless (Frontera Grill, XOCO, Topolobampo)
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Edna Stewart
Charlie Trotter
Grant Achatz
Doug Sohn
Jean Banchet
Doug Sohn
Grant Achatz
Rick Tramonto/ Gale Gand
Paul Kahan
Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless 5
Jean Banchet
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Grant Achatz
Rick Bayless
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Grant Achatz 1 Soul-food royalty, Stewart served her famous fried chicken and biscuits on Chicago’s West Side for more than four decades (she passed away last June). 2 As chef and proprietor of the legendary Le Francais in Wheeling, Banchet changed how Americans understood French food. 3 Peas/carrots, beets/goat cheese, Tramonto/Gand—until last year, when Tramonto split from Tru for New Orleans. Gand is still a partner at Tru. 4 Trotter’s legend has faded, while Sohn’s has only grown. 5 Bayless trained Paul Kahan. Student has not yet become the teacher. 6 Achatz is known around the world, whereas Bayless is famous in the U.S., Canada…and every village in Oaxaca.
best public art
Jaume Plensa’s Crown Fountain
Crown Fountain 1985 Bears
1985 Bears
“The Picasso” 1
Best team 1985 Bears
crown fountain
1995–96 Bulls
1995–96 Bulls
1985 Bears 1959 White Sox
1906 Cubs 1
1985 Bears 2
Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate
Flamingo
2005 White Sox
2010 Blackhawks 1995–96 Bulls
1991–92 Bulls
Alexander Calder’s Flamingo 1 After “The Picasso” was unveiled in 1967, Ald. John J. Hoellen begged the city to replace it with a statue of Cubs great Ernie Banks.
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1991–92 Bulls
2005 White Sox
1963 Bears
1 The year the Cubs set a modern-era record with 116 wins, they still lost the Series to the White Sox. 2 While the ’85 Bears and Jordan’s Bulls set up residency in the hearts and minds of Chicagoans, only the Bears made it permanent. Players from the ’85 Bears are all over this town, but no one writes “where are they now?” pieces about Craig Hodges.
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greatest second city chicago alum
Jack McBrayer Jack McBrayer
Eugene Levy John Candy John Candy
Stephnie Weir Bill Murray
Tina Fey
Tina Fey Tina Fey
Betty Thomas Bill Murray Bill Murray
Rachel Dratch
Dan Aykroyd
Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert Amy Sedaris Bob Odenkirk
Gilda Radner
Bill Murray
Tina Fey
Bill Murray
Steve Carell
Gilda Radner Harold Ramis
John Belushi John Belushi
Steve Carell
John Belushi
Bill Murray
Steve Carell Chris Farley
Robert Klein Robert Klein
Chris Farley Tim Meadows
Fred Willard
Chris Farley
Del Close
Bonnie Hunt
Del Close
Tina Fey
Mike Myers
Del Close Joan Rivers
Mike Myers
Paul Sand
James Belushi James Belushi
Alan Arkin
Del Close
Chris Farley
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Alan Arkin
Tim Kazurinsky George Wendt
Alan Arkin
George Wendt
Severn Darden
George Wendt
Barbara Harris
Shelley Long
1 Kazurinsky barely made this list. He actually barely made SNL: He was cast at the last minute (bumping Paul Reubens). 2 Long earned five Emmy nods (and one win) for her role as Diane on Cheers and Frasier.
best rapper Juice
Malik Yusef Serengeti
Juice
Cap D of 2 All Natural
Twista Vakill
Malik Yusef
Que Billah
Twista
3 No I.D.
Qwel
Common
Cap D of All Natural
Rhymefest
GLC
Lupe Fiasco
Rhymefest
Da Brat
Lupe Fiasco
Common
Twista
Juice 1
Coldhard of Crucial Conflict
Common
Kanye West
Kanye West
Kanye West
Common
Twista
Common 1 Famously crushed Eminem in a battle. 2 Practices corporate law. Under his real name, David Kelly, obviously. 3 Long before producing hits for Jay-Z and Kanye, he released the lost gem Accept Your Own and Be Yourself. 4 The bald MC captured life on the West and South Sides like no other, bringing speed, grace, humor and charm, thus setting the standard for Chicago hip-hop.
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Severn Darden
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Best Chicago-set novel The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow The Adventures of Augie March
The Coast of Chicago,
Most legendary concert Björk at Civic Opera House, Oct 14, 2001 Radiohead at Hutchinson Field
Radiohead at Hutchinson Field, Aug 1, 2001
1 Stuart Dybek
The Adventures of Augie March
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser 2 Native Son
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Radiohead at Hutchinson Field
Nirvana at Aragon, Oct 23, 1993
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Native Son, Richard Wright
The Adventures of Augie March
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair The Jungle
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
The Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell
The Jungle The Studs Lonigan Trilogy
The Man with the Golden Arm, Nelson Algren
1 Point taken, it’s not a novel. But it’s still one of the best Chicago fictions of all time. 2 Check out the upset! Wright’s novel may not be as epic, but it’s more enduring. 3 Sinclair’s galvanizing social novel changed the city at the time, but writing like Bellow’s is timeless.
Most infamous sports moment
Shellac + David Yow as the Shellac Pistols at Lounge Ax, 1 Oct 31, 1998
Nirvana at Aragon
6
Radiohead
Rolling Stones at Double 2 Door, Sept 18, 1997
at Hutchinson Field
Rolling Stones at Double Door
Jackson Five at the Sunday Night Amateur Talent show at the Regal Theater, 1967
Grateful Dead at 3 Soldier Field, Jul 9, 1995 Prince at Rosemont 4 Horizon, Dec 12, 1984
Prince at 5 Rosemont Horizon
1 The Jesus Lizard maniac plays Johnny Rotten for Halloween. 2 A venue the size of Mick’s typical dressing room 3 Jerry Garcia’s last gig 4 a.k.a. Allstate Arena, kids 5 The Purple One was at his erotic (and songwriting) pinnacle, stroking a modified guitar until it squirted water on those fortunate ones up close. 6 As Thom Yorke belted “Street Spirit” while the skyline twinkled at dusk, one could sense a wave of mass spine-tingling. No concert has better used the city as a prop.
Signature building 1 Chicago Cultural Center
The Ligues attack Royals first-base coach, 2002
Chicago Cultural Center
Aqua
Steve Bartman Steve Bartman intercepts a catch in the 2003 NLCS Steve Bartman Cubs manager Lee Elia calls fans unemployed motherfuckers, 1983 Lee Elia
The White Sox throw the World Series, earning the nickname Black Sox, 1919
Black Sox
2
Disco Demolition leads to a riot at Comiskey, 1979
Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz introduces Hawkvision, charging $29.95 a month to watch Hawks home games, 1992
1 And you thought it was just steroids. 2 Disco Demolition was actually kind of cool, from a distance.
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Robie House Marina City
Marina City 2
revealing cork, 2003
Bill Sianis and his goat kicked out of World Series game at Wrigley, 1945
Hawkvision
Chicago Cultural Center
1 Sammy Sosa’s bat cracks open,
Steve Bartman
Black Sox
Prince at Rosemont Horizon
Chicago Cultural Center
Willis Tower Willis Tower The Rookery
Willis Tower
Louis Sullivan’s Carson Pirie Scott Crown Hall
Carson Pirie Scott
1 Boston-based architecture firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge won the competition for the Chicago Cultural Center after designing the Art Institute of Chicago. 2 Serving Chicagoans is more important than dominating the skyline: The Chicago Cultural Center, beautiful inside and out, attracts locals to its exhibitions, concerts, lectures and café.
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Most memorable chicago-set TV character
J.J. Evans (Good Times)
Dr. Robert Hartley (The Bob Newhart Show)
Balki Bartokomous (Perfect Strangers)
J.J. Evans
Punky Brewster (Punky Brewster)
Steve Urkel (Family Matters) 1
Dr. Mark Greene (ER)
Al Bundy (Married…With Children)
Steve Urkel
Punky Brewster
J.J. Evans
Charles “Corky” Thatcher (Life Goes On)
Al Bundy
Steve Urkel
Steve Urkel 2
Defining Daley
Autocratic approach to City Council Autocratic approach to City Council
“Butt”
2
“I’m pro death! I’m a deathpenalty opponent!” “Butt” Autocratic approach to City Council
“They have cut state mentalhealth facilities all over the state. That is state money. Underline that. S-A-T-E money.”
Tax-increment financing misuse
Autocratic approach to City Council
3
O’Hare expansion O’Hare expansion
“Scrootened” “Scrutiny? What else do you want? Do you want to take my shorts? Give me a break…. Go scrutinize yourself! I get scrootened every day.”
Meigs Field destruction
5
Millennium Park
Parkingmeter lease
Millennium Park Green 1 initiatives
Millennium Park Millennium Park
Downtown theater district
Parkingmeter lease
misstep
accomplishment
Autocratic approach to City Council
2016 Olympics bid 4 Bad budgeting
Cronyism Downtown theater district
Streetscaping
Bad budgeting
Bad budgeting
1 The green roof movement; promotion of LEED certification for buildings 2 Using tax-increment financing—taxes set aside to improve “blighted” areas—to fund development in prosperous ’hoods 3 The acquisition and destruction of properties in Bensenville by using eminent domain 4 The city faces a $654 million budget gap as Daley leaves office. 5 Mayor Daley’s iron-fist rule over the City Council begets everything else in his tenure—his greatest accomplishments and his most scarring failures.
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“It’s been very effective. [Picks up gun from press conference table.] If I put this up your butt, you’ll find out how effective it is.”
abuse of power
Quote
1 Family Matters was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers. 2 Consider how often the painfully awkward nerd’s namechecked in raps, including Common’s “Two Scoops of Raisins,” Kid Cudi’s “Cudi Spazzin’” and Kanye West’s “Dark Fantasy.”
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Most significant milestone in chicago lgbt history Henry Gerber
Chicago civil-rights attorney Pearl Hart (1890–1975) spends her lifetime defending gay civil rights and cofounds the Chicago Mattachine Society in the 1950s. German-born immigrant Henry Gerber establishes the first gayrights group in 1924.
Henry Gerber
drag ball
The Near North Side becomes a center of gay activity during the Roaring Twenties. Variety reports 35 “pansy parlors” by 1930. African-American Alfred Finnie launches the first drag ball on the South Side in 1935.
Pride Parade
Pride Parade 2
Pride Parade
Howard Brown
1 Illinois strikes down its antisodomy laws in 1961 (repeal effective January 1, 1962).
The Gay Liberation Front organizes the first Pride Parade in 1970. Howard Brown, the Midwest’s largest LGBT health organization, opens in 1974. Chuck Renslow establishes International Mr. Leather in 1979.
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Official gay ’hood
Reeling, the secondoldest LGBT film festival, debuts in 1982. Advisory Council
Advisory Council
Official gay ’hood
Human Rights Ordinance in 1988.
Chicago begins the first municipally funded Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 1991. Larry McKeon becomes Illinois’s first openly gay state legislator in 1996.
Official gay ’hood
Official gay ’hood
Chicago becomes the first U.S. city to designate a gay neighborhood when Mayor Daley sanctions North Halsted Street’s pylons in 1998. Tom Tunney is elected as the city’s first openly gay alderman in 2003.
Tom Tunney
Gov. Pat Quinn signs the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act in 2011.
1 As groundbreaking as it sounds, the striking down of Illinois’s antisodomy laws was more about revising criminal codes than gay rights. 2 The first Pride Parade happened in Bughouse Square in the Gold Coast. It moved to Clark and Diversey the following year. 3 Chicago was the last major U.S. city to enact a human-rights ordinance protecting gays and lesbians. 4 We were the first city to officially tell the world, “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.”
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Wilco Modest Mouse The Moon & Antarctica
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Wilco Stevie Wonder Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius
Liz Phair
Bo Diddley
Liz Phair Exile in Guyville
Slint Spiderland
Rolling Stones
Rolling Stones 12x5
Bo Diddley
Sunny Day Real Estate Diary
Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley Bo Diddley
3
Chuck Berry
Chuck Berry Chuck Berry Is on Top
Chuck Berry
Rodan Rusty Mayor Harold Washington establishes the Advisory Council on Gay and Lesbian Issues in 1987. 3 Chicago passes the
Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame
Most legendary album recorded in chicago
Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Chuck Berry
Big Brother & the Holding Company Big Brother & the Holding Company Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Stereolab Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Smashing Pumpkins 2
Chuck Berry
Stereolab
Sun Ra Super-Sonic Jazz Curtis Mayfield Ahmad Jamal At the Pershing: But Not For Me Curtis Mayfield Curtis
Curtis Mayfield
1 Isaac Brock was jumped and had his jaw broken outside the studio. The band spent the healing time adding layers and layers. 2 Sorry, Siamese Dream was recorded outside Atlanta. 3 On Top wins by a Pomade-slicked hair. Bo brought the killer shuffle, but Chuck swaggered with menace, innuendo, humor and more than enough riffs for the Brits to rip off.
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Cajmere (Green Velvet)
Felix Da Housecat
Cajmere (Green Velvet)
Ron Hardy DJ Pierre Ron Hardy
Ron Hardy
Ron Hardy 1
Frankie Knuckles Frankie Knuckles Marshall Jefferson
Frankie Knuckles
Mark Farina Derrick Carter 1 The term house may have come from Frankie Knuckles, but when he left for New York in the ’80s, it was Hardy’s kinetic energy and reputation that solidified the genre. His sets at the Music Box are the stuff of legend.
Derrick Carter
Most influential kids’ musicians Justin Roberts Justin Roberts
Jeanie B! and the Jelly Beans
Justin Roberts
Ralph Covert
Ralph Covert Human Tim + Robot Tim
Ella Jenkins
Most influential dance figure Joseph Holmes, dancerchoreographer, company founder
Ruth Page
Ruth Page, ballet and opera dancerchoreographer Shirley Mordine, founder of the Dance Center of Columbia College
Ruth Page
Shirley Mordine
Sybil Shearer, modern dancerchoreographer Katherine Dunham, author, activist, teacher and choreographer
Ruth Page
Katherine Dunham
Ann Barzel, critic and historian Katherine Dunham Lou Conte, founder of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Gus Giordano, jazz-dance choreographer, company founder
Gus Giordano
BEST ICONIC ATTRACTION Wrigley Field
World’s Columbian Exposition’s White City Art Institute of Chicago’s lions
World’s Columbian Exposition’s White City
Elevated Loop tracks Elevated Loop tracks
Elevated Loop tracks
Elevated Loop tracks
Navy Pier Ella Jenkins
Ella Jenkins Little Miss Ann
Ella Jenkins
House of Tomorrow Fort Dearborn
Laura Doherty
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Laura Doherty Mr. Singer and the Sharp Cookies
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most influential DJ
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Best nonfiction book about cHICAGO The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
biggest contribution to the food world Kraft American Singles
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Molecular gastronomy
Division Street: America by Studs Terkel
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Molecular gastronomy
Boss by Mike Royko
Twinkie The salad bar (popularized by R.J. Grunts)
Boss by Mike Royko
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
most commanding conductor Sir Georg Solti
The Twinkie The Twinkie
Best chicago-born store Marshall Field’s
Marshall Field’s
Sir Georg Solti Carson Pirie Scott
photo: left, Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim
Sir Georg Solti
Daniel Hege
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Crate & Barrel
Sir Andrew Davis Sir Andrew Davis
Sears Sears 1 Both the CSO and its audience revered the Hungarian baton wielder as a gentleman and a peerless artist whose poise in performance during his 23-year tenure was unequaled. The skeptical might investigate Solti’s complete Mahler recordings or his Ring Cycle with the Symphony.
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Wilco, “Via Chicago”
Spoon, “Chicago at Night” Wilco, “Via Chicago”
Wilco, “Via Chicago”
Rhymefest, “ChicagoRillas” Rhymefest, “ChicagoRillas”
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Merle Haggard, “Sidewalks of Chicago”
Bee Gees, “Living in Chicago”
Soul Coughing, “Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago” Bee Gees, “Living in Chicago” Graham Nash, “Chicago”
Merle Haggard, “Sidewalks of Chicago” Merle Haggard, “Sidewalks of Chicago”
1 There’s something inescapably inauthentic about a Californian singing of “Harland High School” and the “West Side Mission Home” at “109 West Charlotte.” Hell, that latter address doesn’t even exist. But Haggard didn’t have Google Maps, only crocodile tears of whiskey and a convict’s heart.
Merle Haggard, “Sidewalks of Chicago” Freddy Cole, “On the South Side of Chicago”
Most iconic playwright
Lorraine Hansberry
David Mamet
The El (The Blues Brothers, Risky Business, Running Scared, The Fugitive) Lake Shore Drive (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Risky Business, When Harry Met Sally [in the wrong direction]) Daley Plaza (The Blues Brothers, The Fugitive)
Wrigley Building (Call Northside 777, Road to Perdition, virtually any movie with a skyline shot)
LaSalle Street canyon (The Untouchables, The Dark Knight)
Tower Town (late 1920s– mid-1930s)
LaSalle Street canyon LaSalle Street canyon
Tower Town
East Lakeview
Rebecca Gilman (Spinning into Butter)
Old Town (1970s–’80s)
Lorraine Hansberry (A Raisin in the Sun)
East Lakeview (early 1980s– present) Wicker Park/ Bucktown (late 1980s– present)
East Lakeview
Wicker Park/ Bucktown
Andersonville (late 1980s– present)
South Shore (1970s– present) Andersonville
Tracy Letts (August: Osage County)
Andersonville (late 1980s– present)
Brett Neveu (Do the Hustle)
Rogers Park (late 1970s– present)
Andersonville
Tracy Letts
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LaSalle Street canyon
Wrigley Building
best gayborhood
David Mamet
David Mamet
Daley Plaza
The Green Mill (Thief, The Dilemma)
Tanya Saracho (El Nogalar)
Ben Hecht (The Front Page)
The El
Wrigley Field (The Blues Brothers, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
South Loop (late 1920s– mid-1930s)
David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross)
The El
University of Chicago (Flatliners, Chain Reaction, The Fugitive [briefly])
Jackie Taylor (The Other Cinderella) Jackie Taylor
Lorraine Hansberry
Most iconic film locations
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Photo: bottom left, Brigitte Lacombe
Best songs with “Chicago” in the title (that Frank Sinatra did not sing)