I present to you “The 25 Most Essential Chicago Movies.”  The list follows below, but do take a minute, click the link, and read Vulture’s rationale behind each decision — plus they have a few movie clips thrown in there as well, for good measure.

So, what do we think about this?  Additions, subtractions?  Love it just the way it is?  Here they are in alphabetical order:

• About Last Night (1986)
• Adventures in Babysitting (1987)
• Backdraft (1991)
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
• Candyman (1992)
• Chi-Raq (2015)
• Cooley High (1975)
• The Dark Knight (2008)
• Eight Men Out (1988)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
• The Fugitive (1993)
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
• High Fidelity (2000)
• Home Alone (1990)
• Hoop Dreams (1994)
• Medium Cool (1969)
• My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997)
• Public Enemies (2009)
• Road to Perdition (2002)
• Running Scared (1986)
• Southside With You (2016)
• Thief (1981)
• The Untouchables (1987)
• While You Were Sleeping (1995)
• Widows (2018)

Some good suggestions for movie watching over this long holiday weekend?  — [eric]