What TV Shows Are Taped in Chicago?

Chicago is home to many great television and production studios, and if you’re interested in seeing the taping of a television show, it might be the perfect destination.

If you’re looking for fictional shows taped in Chicago, there have been a handful over the years, such as Rosanne, that have filmed parts of their scenes in the Windy City. Chicago is also well known as the scene of many movies.

But for television fans, the city is best known as the home of the talk show. There are many different talk shows that are taped in Chicago. For example, the following shows are all filmed in Chicago:

• Jerry Springer
• Judge Mathis
• Oprah

Daytime courtroom reality shows, divorce courts, and gossip shows are fun things to see filmed if you’re a television fan. Most of them offer free tickets for studio audiences, and it can be a really cool experience to watch a show being taped live in studio.

If this sounds like fun to you, then you should be headed to Chicago. The city of Chicago is also home to Harpo Industries (which produces Oprah) as well as major offices for NBC Studios and other major movers and shakers in the television industry. It’s a fascinating place to go if you’re interested in the process of making television shows. As for getting tickets to Oprah, it is possible, but as you can imagine, it’s not easy.