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Chicago Chicago, is based on the musical play written, directed, and choreographed for the stage by Bob Fosse. The movie was choreographed and directed by Rob Marshall. It is set in the 1920s when Chicago was a city with big mobster problems and big newspaper headlines that shocked and entertained the attention of its citizens. The stories that captured most everyone’s attention were women who were cold-blooded killers who were in “Chicago’s famed Murderer’s Row.” The media would spin sordid tales about their lives and killings to feed the public’s insatiable appetite for sensational news to sell their morning and evening papers. Instantly, women who’ve been accused of murder were seen as victims. The people would sympathize with her and would view her as a heroine and give her celebri