List of Midwest emo bands

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This is a list of Midwest emo bands. This is not a list of emo bands from the Midwestern United States, but bands that are a part of the specific Midwest emo genre.

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    Jonathan Scott: And we all started bands around the same time around the Shakeworth scene in Downers Grove... it was a really really important scene for a lot of bands and I think a lot of the way the Midwest emo scene turned out.]
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