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Old 07-20-2007, 08:26 AM
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Default Movies & TV shows filmed in Chicago

This is kind of piggy-backing of the Home Alone House thread. I'm visiting Chicago for the first time in September for my Cubs/Irish sports trip, but would like to see other stuff while I'm there. I found a list of movies filmed in Chicago and I was wondering if there were any landmarks so to speak of where the movies were filmed. I was a kid in the 80's so these are the movies that'd I'd like to find out about:

Ferris Bueller
Home Alone (saw that thread)
Breakfast Club
The Fugitive
Blues Brothers
Uncle Buck
Vice Versa
National Lampoon's Vacation
The Untouchables

Also, even though Married with Children was based in Chicago, I'm guessing it wasn't filmed there. I was and still am a huge MWC fan. Maybe I can go to Polk High and take a picture in the Bundy football pose.

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I dont think there are many landmarks to be honest. There are so many movies filmed out there, there would be landmarks all over the place. LOL Here are a few other movies that I can think of off the top of my head:

Blues Brothers
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
My Best Friends' Wedding
About Last Night
While You Were Sleeping
Chicago
Batman Returns
Wayne's World
The Untouchables
Cheaper By The Dozen
Risky Business
Sixteen Candles
Stir of Echoes
The Lake House
What Women Want
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
National Lampoons Vacation
Home Alone series
The Fugitive
Road To Perdition
Backdraft
The Negotiator
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Uncle Buck
Save The Last Dance
Tommy Boy

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the last one I remember it was the "Break up"

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Old 07-20-2007, 11:07 AM
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What I'm looking for here are landmarks. For example, the house where Home Alone took place (found in Home Alone thread). How about the dealership where the Griswald's car got crushed into a cube, or the high school where Breakfast Club took place? See where I'm going

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TV shows off the top of my head:
1. Perfect Strangers YouTube - Perfect Strangers Intro
2. Family Matters YouTube - Family matters
3. The Bob Newhart Show which the building is actaully in Evanston I believe?
4. ER
5. Prison Break (Joliet Prison)


And movies... Lets not forget Rookie of the Year, Only the Lonely, Poltergiest III (All filmed in the John Hancock Building), I think some of Meet the Parents was in Chicago to start with too.

Here is link to better help you: Illinois Movie Filming Locations and shooting sites @ The 80\\\'s Movies Rewind * Film Locations in Chicago * List of fiction set in Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Default Landmarks of Chicago Films

Ferris Bueller -- the parade was down Dearborn which is no longer used for 'em

The Fugitive -- made a phone call near the Michigan Ave. bridge. He got shot at coming out of the Daley Center (which does not house any convicts) and walked in a parade down Clark street. The penultimate scene was at the Conrad Hilton on south Michigan Ave. Most fun is noting the real reporters who played reporters in the movie -- like Pam Zekman and John Drummond. The hospital was County (Stroger).

Blues Brothers -- jumped the 95th street bridge, ran on lower Wacker Drive, the mall was in Harvey I think and I saw the actors in '79 running into the Daley Center for the tax payment scene. The street dance was 47th street right near the el stop.

The Untouchables -- Movies seem to love the Daley center -- that's where they threw the guy off the roof.

Road to Perdition -- Hanks went in a speakeasy on Wacker Drive and an office in the Wrigley Building.

Native Son -- Filmed at 57th and Woodlawn.

Bullitt -- after they removed the safety ropes; the car plunged off the Marina Towers into the river.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding -- Her dad's restaurant was at Wacker and Wabash.

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Chicago's got a movie tradition from waaaaay back in the industry's history. Essanay Studios, which is still located in Uptown, and still bears the Essanay signage (it's now St. Augustine College, the first bilingual college in the country) produced silent movies featuring Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the like. The first film version of "A Christmas Carol" was filmed at Essanay, and they also produced some of the earliest cartoons.

The book "Hollywood on Lake Michigan: 100 Years of Chicago and the Movies" is really good, in terms of telling lots of interesting facts, and telling a lot about various landmarks. It's not brand new, so it may only go up to the late 90s, but it's pretty good.

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Noone mentioned High Fidelity! It was filmed in Wicker Park and parts of Logan Square (I'm probably missing some other hoods) there is a shot of John Cusak under the California Blue Line stop , right down the street from where I used to live!

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The new Batman movie has been filming on lower Wacker Drive right by my office building for the past couple of weeks. I've been seeing a bunch of "Gotham City Police" vehicles around the area as props, including a paddy wagon.

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The new Batman movie has been filming on lower Wacker Drive right by my office building for the past couple of weeks. I've been seeing a bunch of "Gotham City Police" vehicles around the area as props, including a paddy wagon.
Theyre making another one? Good grief. Actually, the last one was pretty frickin cool, I have to admit.

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