Which U.S. city is depicted in the movie The Sting?

The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in Chicago in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw).

It is top notch entertainment, pairing Newman and Redford as the two penny-ante con men who set up a hilariously complex “Big Con” to fleece Irish mob boss Robert Shaw out of half a million dollars in Depression-era Chicago, Illinois.

The Chicago locations, set up in the style of the 1930s by director George Roy Hill, are all very well spotlighted. Moreover, certain specific locations truly enhance the film and aid its sense of good, harmless, nostalgic fun.