Favorite movie filmed in the Chicago area ???

[Josef K.]

Thanks Drover.

Interesting there are still apartments above. I read a review once from someone who had watched Henry and became creeped out when he realized it had been filmed in his building (possibly in the very apt. where he was watching it!).

[NorCal Dude]

Lucas. I like it because it was filmed, or part of it was in Glen Ellyn, where my dad lived before we moved. The scene with Corey and Winona was right there at Lake Ellyn, where the did they fire works when I was growning up. The movie theater was actually the Glen, I don't even know if that thing still exists anymore, but it was the downtown theater. Lots of the scenes of the school were filmed at Glenbard West, or as my brother a Glenbard south alum calls it, the dump on the hump. Charlie Sheen was in the movie too.

A typical 80's Chicago teen movie imo.

[SonySegaTendo617]

Originally Posted by NorCal Dude

Lucas. I like it because it was filmed, or part of it was in Glen Ellyn, where my dad lived before we moved. The scene with Corey and Winona was right there at Lake Ellyn, where the did they fire works when I was growning up. The movie theater was actually the Glen, I don't even know if that thing still exists anymore, but it was the downtown theater.

Glen Theater(in Glen Ellyn) is definitely still open for business, albeit that it was subdivided at some point into 4 screens(from 1). Only theater around there that I can think of that was torn down in recent years, was the DuPage Theater in Lombard(and which occurred in 2007).

More info:
Glen Art Theatre in Glen Ellyn, IL - Cinema Treasures

Oh, and my favorite movie(local filming scene-wise for Chicago area places) has always been the Blues Brothers. With The Fugitive, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and The Dark Knight also being up there(and not far behind) among my fav movies filmed in Chicago. I wish the sequel to The Fugitive(U.S. Marshals) had MORE scenes filmed in Chicago, rather than most being in(I believe) NYC. (only 2 scenes in U.S. Marshals I can think of that were set in Chicago was inside the Lawrence House building at Lawrence/Kenmore, and when Wesley Snipes ran in front of a Metra Union Pacific-North train just north of the Rosehill Dr. underpass at the end of the cemetery scene. plus, the first part of that scene was filmed inside Bohemia National Cemetery.)

[Manigault]

Originally Posted by SonySegaTendo617

I wish the sequel to The Fugitive(U.S. Marshals) had MORE scenes filmed in Chicago, rather than most being in(I believe) NYC. (only 2 scenes in U.S. Marshals I can think of that were set in Chicago was inside the Lawrence House building at Lawrence/Kenmore, and when Wesley Snipes ran in front of a Metra Union Pacific-North train just north of the Rosehill Dr. underpass at the end of the cemetery scene. plus, the first part of that scene was filmed inside Bohemia National Cemetery.)

In 'US Marshalls', Wesley Snipes was shown as a private tow truck driver pulling a car going south over the State Street bridge over the Chicago River on a Sunday morning. Not only would that be unlikely, it is most likely illegal on such a boulevard, too.

If you want to be picky.

[MS313]

Transformers 3 for me. even though it was also filmed in alot of other cities too like Detroit, DC, LA, Houston ect.

[pvande55]

Just saw Source Code. I was trying to figure what line it was filmed on. Obviously the Rock Island was used for much of it. Still trying to figure out which was used for "Glenbrook Station."