Chicago A-Z

For each letter A-Z, guess the answer that pertains to the city of Chicago or its suburbs.

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Chicago has two: O'Hare and Midway

Airport

Genre of music exemplified by Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters

Blues

Baseball team that ended a 108 year championship drought in 2016

Cubs

Last name of father/son mayors who, between them, led Chicago for over 40 years

Daley

The University of Chicago has won 13 Nobel Prizes in ...

Economics

Disaster of 1871: Great Chicago ____

Fire

Nearby city in Indiana where Michael Jackson was born

Gary

Many of this director's movies were set in Chicago including "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

Hughes

Type of comedy that "The Second City" is famous for

Improv

This "Presidential" park was the site of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893

Jackson

Never put this on a Chicago style hot dog

Ketchup

Name for Chicago's downtown core: The ____

Loop

Chicago is located on this lake

Michigan

Prestigious university located in Evanston

Northwestern

President who lived in Chicago

Obama

Chicago is famous for a deep dish variety of this

Pizza

Chicago-born producer of "We Are the World" and "Thriller": ______ Jones

Quincy

Mayor from 2011-2019: ____ Emanuel

Rahm

Former name of Chicago's tallest building: _____ Tower

Sears

Chicago's biggest newspaper

Tribune

Name for the group of Prohibition agents, led by Elliot Ness, who took down Al Capone in the early 1930s

Untouchables

Quote about Chicago political corruption: "___ early, ___ often"

Vote

Nickname: The _____ City

Windy

The Bears won this Super Bowl, the 20th

Former meatpacking district, once the world's largest: Union Stock ____

Yards

Leading actress of the 2002 movie "Chicago"

Zellweger

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33 Comments

Level 56

Aug 21, 2019

Tried Yard and couldn't think of anything else. Why this time are we requiring the plural added s?

Level ∞

Aug 21, 2019

Yard will work now.

Level 76

Aug 21, 2019

Nice one, though a little sad that barely 2/3 of people got my alma mater.

Level 93

Aug 21, 2019

The producers of Chicago (2002) may have run Catherine Zeta-Jones in the supporting category to put her in a better position for an Oscar, but for all intents and purposes, she was a co-lead in that film. I'd recommend plugging her in as an alternate answer to Z.

Level ∞

Aug 21, 2019

Okay

Level 72

Sep 1, 2019

Another fun thing to think about... how many famous "Z" actresses have their ever been? And here they are both as a quiz answer.

Level 75

Aug 21, 2019

Not fair you have to add the "s" on the Y-question. Nothing else ever requires an "s" at the end.

+11

Level ∞

Aug 21, 2019

Except for Cubs and Untouchables... And

Blues and Sears and Economics. Wait a sec... All the other answers that end in an S require it.

Level 80

Aug 21, 2019

Accepting "Northwest" for "Northwestern"?

Level 89

Aug 21, 2019

If this were a quiz about Seattle, then yes, absolutely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_University_(United_States).

+10

Level 93

Aug 23, 2019

No, he meant that it's weird that the quiz DOES accept Northwest for Northwestern. It probably shouldn't.

Level 89

Aug 25, 2019

The Nobel for Economics isn't a real Nobel established by Alfred Nobel. Instead it was created by the Swedish central bank in 1968 to give economics greater prestige.

Level 72

Sep 1, 2019

Yep, they gave (and give) enough money and the Nobel Foundation is more than happy to cash the checks in perpetuity.

Level 81

Jan 5, 2025

Still, there is no Nobel prize for economics.

Level 46

Oct 3, 2019

Dang, spelled Quincy as Quincey.

Level 68

Oct 5, 2019

I think a better clue for G would be Grant Park. It's the huge downtown park that hosts Millennium Park, the Art Institute, and Buckingham Fountain (the "Married with Children" fountain). Lots of festivals are held there every year, including Lollapalooza. You could also use (Operation) Greylord for G, which gives a nod to Chicago's history of political corruption.

Not our proudest attribute, but it's a pretty significant part of the city's fabric and history. Otherwise I think these are all really great answers.

Level 49

Oct 5, 2019

For H, how about the settlement house that Jane Addams established in the 1880s to bring social and educational programs to a Chicago neighborhood with many new immigrants: ____ House?

Level ∞

Oct 5, 2019

Don't think it's particularly well-known outside of Chicago. Interestingly, Jane Addams is a distant relative of mine.

Level 73

Oct 5, 2019

I've never been to Chicago but I would have gotten Hull House. I had no idea about the director.

Level 68

Oct 6, 2019

should have remembered hughes, would never have gotten hull

Level 27

Sep 22, 2025

idk abt everyone else but we learned plenty about Hull House in US History

Level 94

Mar 4, 2020

How about this for H. Chicago is known as the rock band with _____

Level 65

Oct 7, 2019

"Vote early, vote often" is not just a Chicago thing. It's an Illinois state thing. It is said all over the state because the whole state is corrupt. Although, Chicago can easily be blamed for most of the corruption as most of the high politicians are from there, or have political ties to there.

Level 78

Oct 16, 2024

I live there...it's a hot mess. 4 of our past 10 governors have been in prison. When i was younger i read a story in the newspaper that it was discovered in an election that there were more registered democrats in 8 different precincts than there were citizens that lived there. It's a constant joke around here that Chicagoans vote Republican until they die. Then they vote Democrat.

Level 67

Oct 9, 2019

Why on earth would you accept "Zeta Jones" for "Zellweger"? :D

Level 73

Jan 16, 2020

That's what I was wondering.. but it's explained in the posts above

Level 51

May 17, 2021

lorax??????????

Level 59

Jun 25, 2023

If you like this quiz, check out my quiz on the Chicago El! https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1500129/chicago-el-endpoints

Level 88

Dec 23, 2023

I feel like there had to be something that could have been used for "G" without needing to leave the city, let alone the state.

Level 27

Sep 22, 2025

agreed

Level 74

Sep 21, 2025

What is the difference between economy and economics? Tried the first one, and couldn't think of anything else - but it might be my english, that is not good enough?

Level 27

Sep 22, 2025

In English, "economy" refers to the exchange of goods, services, money, or whatever else within a network. "Economics" is the study of an economy or economic principles.

Level 27

Sep 22, 2025

Chicago is my second-favorite city in this country... second only to Portland, because I'm from Portland and my heart is always with the PNW. But Chicago is incredible