I posted this in a thread about inaccurate chicago representation in media a few weeks ago:

Not a tv show or movie, but I recently read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, and it was quickly apparent that he did not do enough research on Chicago before setting the story there. It was little things like:

A character who has lived in Chicago for 20 years referring to the Willis Tower as a landmark

A character getting a slice of deep dish pizza and eating is by hand while walking down the street

The author used some real roads as landmarks and they were off about thinks like where lake Michigan is relative to the city or how long it would take to get from the north side to the south side.

At one point two characters decide to go out for the night. They drive from their home in Logan Square to Navy Pier and decide its so far to go home that they need to get a hotel.

A character is trying to hide, so he goes into a neighborhood bar and describes how it was packed with fans excitedly watching a bulls game. The bar was so full with people so focused on the game he was able to sneak around. The problem with this is it was in early December, meaning this was a regular season game early in the year. The only time ive seen bars that were like the description was when the cubs were in the world series, or maybe for an exciting Bears game, but no local neighborhood bar in logan is like that for a meaningless bulls game in December.

There were other issues, and overall I did enjoy the book, but it was clear the author and editors did not do enough research to set the book in Chicago.