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NBC's Chicago Fire starts off with some firefighters going to a fire in Chicago. So in case you thought that the title was referring to the soccer team, or was a period piece about the original Chicago fire, or was a metaphor or something, rest assured: you will see plenty of firemen fighting fires.

Chicago's real firefighters watched their fictional counterparts respond to fires, gunshot wounds.

FOX's The Mob Doctor, the first of several pilots slotted for the fall television season that were filmed in Chicago, premiered Monday night promising to bring Chicagoans exactly what doesn't apply to their lives. But NBC's Revolution creates a more convincing, if fantastical version of the city. 

What better way to figure out what life looks like for modern families than to make predictions about how a favorite 1980s television family would have fared in 2012?

Scott Smith of Chicago Magazine talks about his lack of surprise, and growing frustration, with Former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton's appointment as a new correspondent for NBC. An excerpt is below.

Few people know more about both the making of a Broadway musical and making it as an actor on Broadway than Brian d'Arcy James.And now James, whose on and off Broadway credits include Time Stands Still, Sweet Smell of Success, The Good Thief, Titanic and Shrek