<P> Two major daily newspapers are published in Chicago: the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun - Times, with the Tribune having the larger circulation . There are also several regional and special - interest newspapers and magazines, such as Chicago, the Dziennik Związkowy (Polish Daily News), Draugas (the Lithuanian daily newspaper), the Chicago Reader, the SouthtownStar, the Chicago Defender, the Daily Herald, Newcity, StreetWise and the Windy City Times . The entertainment and cultural magazine Time Out Chicago and GRAB magazine are also published in the city, as well as local music magazine Chicago Innerview . In addition, Chicago is the recent home of satirical national news outlet, The Onion, as well as its sister pop - culture publication, The A.V. Club . </P> <P> Since the 1980s, many motion pictures have been filmed and / or set in the city such as The Blues Brothers, Brewster's Millions, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Home Alone, The Fugitive, I, Robot, Mean Girls, Wanted, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Transformers: The Last Knight, Divergent, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Sinister 2 and Suicide Squad . </P> <P> Chicago has also been the setting for many popular television shows, including the situation comedies Perfect Strangers and its spinoff Family Matters, Punky Brewster, Married...with Children, Kenan & Kel, Still Standing, The League, The Bob Newhart Show, and Shake It Up . The city served as the venue for the medical dramas ER and Chicago Hope, as well as the fantasy drama series Early Edition and the 2005--2009 drama Prison Break . Discovery Channel films two shows in Chicago: Cook County Jail and the Chicago version of Cash Cab . Chicago is currently the setting for CBS's The Good Wife and Mike and Molly, Showtime's Shameless, and NBC's Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med . </P> <P> Chicago has five 50,000 watt AM radio stations: the CBS Radio - owned WBBM and WSCR; the Tribune Broadcasting - owned WGN; the Cumulus Media - owned WLS; and the ESPN Radio - owned WMVP . Chicago is also home to a number of national radio shows, including Beyond the Beltway with Bruce DuMont on Sunday evenings . </P>

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