startup chrome with --disable-web-security
On Windows:
chrome.exe --disable-web-security
On Mac:
open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/ --args --disable-web-security
This will allow for cross-domain requests.
I'm not aware of if this also works for local files, but let us know !
And mention, this does exactly what you expect, it disables the web security, so be careful with it.