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A nine-month-old crawls across Chicago following the pictures in his storybook while the three kidnappers chasing him absorb every injury a John Hughes script can invent. John Hughes wrote it, America ignored it, and it ran for months in Kolkata.
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"Ooh-wah-ah-ah-ah." Every kid with a Hot Topic hoodie could do it, and most did. The Chicago band behind "Down with the Sickness" put four straight albums at number one in a decade when rock radio belonged to them.
Cousin Larry, Balki from the island of Mypos, and the Dance of Joy. It started in 1986, but for a generation of kids it was the show that anchored the original TGIF lineup on Friday nights, and the one Family Matters spun out of.
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Henry Rowengartner breaks his arm, it heals with the tendons a little too tight, and suddenly a 12-year-old is throwing 100 mph for the Chicago Cubs. Daniel Stern directs — and steals scenes as loopy pitching coach Phil Brickma. When the arm gives out mid-game, Henry wins with playground tricks. A cable staple of 90s childhoods.
Billy Corgan's Chicago four-piece: shaved head, a black ZERO shirt, and a voice that could go from a whisper to a howl inside one bar. Between Gish and Machina they were a defining act of 90s alternative rock — a #1 double album, two Grammys, and seven VMAs in a single night — and then they ended it themselves, on stage at the same Chicago club where they'd started.
The makeover reveals, the secret crushes, the boot-camp teens and the audience groaning on cue. Jenny Jones ran in syndication from 1991 to 2003, and for a stretch in the mid-90s it was the second-highest-rated talk show in daytime, behind only Oprah.