CHICAGO! Why Has Apple Abandoned You?!?!

Chicago is an OS 9 font. It was not included with OS X. If you still have OS 9 you can install the Chicago font in your /Home/Library/Fonts/ folder. You will need the TrueType or Postscript version of the font.


HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Kappy

woe is me, Steve Jobs, hear my plea:

BRING CHICAGO BACK!!!

You don't need Steve Jobs. Everyone who has OS 9 already has Chicago. If you lost yours, I can send you a copy.

I feel the same way about Gadget, which was abandoned in OSX. Gadget is my full time font, I use it for everything. It is a great looking font and since it is full-bodied it is very readable in bright light conditions. I have no idea why it was not included in OSX and have sent several emails to Apple over the years requesting Gadget be included.

Send a request at http://apple.com/macosx/feedback/

Chicago is there on my iMac G5, a machine that won't boot into Mac OS 9. But it is not on my iMac Intel Core 2 Duo. It must install itself when you install Classic on machines that have Classic.

If you've placed the Chicago font into one of OS X's Fonts folders, then it should be working. If not, then something else is amiss. All previous Mac TrueType fonts work in OS X.

As Kappy and Tom have pointed out, you can reinstall OS 9 to retrieve all of the fonts from the OS 9 installation and use them. If you have any retail copy of OS X, those disks don't include Classic (OS 9), so you'll have to use an older set of OS 9 disks. Matthias' eMac install disks should have a copy of OS 9 on them. They don't exactly stick out as the installation package for it is called something like "Additional Software".

Once you have them installed you can move, or copy all of the fonts from the /System Folder/Fonts/ folder to one of OS X's Fonts folders. It's preferable NOT to use the /System/Library/Fonts/ folder. Use either the Fonts folder in your user account, or the globally accessible (all user accounts) /Library/Fonts/ folder.

actually I have tried to transfer the chicago font
file into OS X, but font book wont recognize it.

Forget fontbook, just put it into Home/Library/Fonts. Lots and lots of people have this font and are using it in OSX, despite the fact this OS does not come supplied with it, no reason why you can't too.

what I mean is that OS X does not recognize it as a
font at all, it thinks its a unix file of some kind

That is usually caused by the font becoming corrupted when tranferred via a Windows file system (including flash drives). Try downloading it from this page:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/fs/FileSharing9.html