If you watched any really crappy programs in the Chicagoland area back in the day, you couldn’t help but see the commercial with some poor wretch losing the door on his beater as he tried to get into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH95UTtbmr8&t=7s - a local classic along with the ads for Empire Carpet and Boushelle Rug Cleaning, among others.
Chicago was one of the last to get cable, since none of the cable distributers were willing to buy all the aldermen, the mayor, the city council and the Cook County democratic organization.