This is a list of fiction set in or near the city of Chicago. Novels Short stories "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) 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 American Buffalo Be Like Water Bleacher Bums Chicago - musical, nominated for ten Tony Awards in 1976 Chicago - play Clybourne Park Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? The Front Page Glengarry Glen Ross Happy End In the Jungle of Cities Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Mean Girls - musical, nominated for 12 Tony Awards in 2018 Proof A Raisin in the Sun - nominated for four Tony Awards in 1960 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Sexual Perversity in Chicago Show Boat Superior Donuts Films About Last Night (1986) Above the Law (1988) The Accountant (2016) - partly in Chicago (box office #1 film in the U.S.) Adventures in Babysitting (1987) The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (1961) Against All Hope (1982) Al Capone (1959) (mob film) Ali (2001) Allah Tantou (1989) American Gun (2005) American Reel (1999) Angel Eyes (2001) Anything's Possible (1999) April Fools (2007) Archive (2020) August Rush (2007) Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) The Babe (1992) Baby on Board (2009) Baby's Day Out (1994) Backdraft (1991) (box office #1 film in the U.S.) Bad Boys (1983) Barbershop (2002) (box office #1 film in the U.S.) Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) (#1 film in U.S.) Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016) Batman (1989) The Batman (2022) Batman Begins (2005) Batman: Gotham Knight (2008) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Beats (2019) Beginning of the End (1957) – set in downstate Illinois and Chicago Betrayed (1988) The Big Brawl (1980) Big Shots (1987) Blankman (1994) Blind (1994) Blink (1994) The Blues Brothers (1980) Blues Brothers 2000 (1998) The Boss (2016) (#1 film in U.S.) Brannigan (1975) The Break-Up (2006) (#1 in the U.S.) The Breakfast Club (1985) Breed of Men (1919) Bridesmaids (2011) (partly