The Real World: Chicago
| The Real World: Chicago | |
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The cast of The Real World: Chicago
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| Created by |
Jonathan Murray Mary-Ellis Bunim |
| Starring | Keri Evans Kyle Brandt Aneesa Ferreira Tonya Cooley Chris Beckman Cara Kahn Theo Gantt III |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network |
MTV Syndication |
| Original release | January 15 – July 9, 2002 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Real World: Back to New York |
| Followed by | The Real World: Las Vegas |
The Real World: Chicago is the eleventh season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. It is the first season of The Real World to be filmed in the East North Central States region of the United States, specifically in Illinois.
The season featured seven people who lived in a converted bookstore/coffeehouse in the Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, which production started from June 28 until November 3, 2001. This was also the first season in which production would start months (sometimes weeks) after wrapping the previous season allowing filming and broadcasting almost immediately unlike the usual annual season. The season premiered on January 15, 2002 and consisted of 24 episodes. This was the first of two seasons to be filmed in Chicago. Twelve years later, the show returned to the city in its thirtieth season, The Real World: Skeletons.
The season depicted cast members dealing with learning of the September 11th attacks, although criticism was leveled at the series for staging this, as the cast was actually at Wrigley Field for a photo shoot when they learned of the event.
Bunim-Murray Productions experienced a number of problems with the production of this season, including a nearby shooting, and numerous protests, vandalism and arrests by locals critical of MTV and its parent company, Viacom, and opposed to the production's perceived contribution to the neighborhood's gentrification.
This was the first season of The Real World to feature two openly gay cast members, Chris Beckman and Aneesa Ferreira. A previous season, The Real World: Hawaii, featured two LBGT castmembers, one of whom, Justin Deabler, was gay, and another of whom, Ruthie Alcaide, was bisexual.
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