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The Break-Up

I would have to say Mercury Rising They actually film some of the movie in the east side. I remember they told us we could look but from the top windows. Bruce Willis had a double drive in the first shoot. Then he came out and did it himself.

I would have to say Mercury Rising They actually film some of the movie in the east side. I remember they told us we could look but from the top windows. Bruce Willis had a double drive in the first shoot. Then he came out and did it himself.

I would have to say Mercury Rising They actually film some of the movie in the east side. I remember they told us we could look but from the top windows. Bruce Willis had a double drive in the first shoot. Then he came out and did it himself.

The Untouchables

Ferris Bueller, definitely. Can't walk by what used to be called First Chicago Plaza without thinking of the people dancing there at the end of the movie. :-)

The Movie was the Breakup

Running Scared with Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines...was my favorite 'Chicago' movie. The movie was very comical and kind of slapstick in the lines and the back and forth between Hines and Crystal was very funny. They had a great back-drop of the city and the el train and all...don't miss it!

"Ferris Bueller's Day Off" has always been special to me because I was in my last couple months of high school, like Ferris was, when that movie came out in 1986. "The Blues Brothers" also ranks right up there. But this conversation begins and ends with another 1986 classic, "About Last Night". From the beautiful scenes of Grant Park to Division street, this movie captured the Chicago dating scene like no other. Also, Chicago's own Jim Belushi put on a memorable performance.

The Breakup!!

I moved from Chicago to Dallas 2 years ago and I miss it very much, (not the weather of course which is why I moved). One of my favorite movies filmed in Chicago is Road to Perdition. I lived on the 2100 block of N. Sawyer, when my friends watch the movie I always mention that I lived a couple of blocks from the church. Other movies, The Breakup, Stranger than Fiction, Ferris Bueller

The Fugitive also was a good movie, and it had some great shots of the skyline.

Don't mean to keep coming on here, but does anyone remember "Henry, Portrait of A Serial Killer"? Filmed in Chicago in about 1986 or 1987, starring Michael Rooker as Henry. This movie showed the gritty side of Chicago.

I moved from Chicago to Dallas 2 years ago and I miss it very much, (not the weather of course which is why I moved). One of my favorite movies filmed in Chicago is Road to Perdition. I lived on the 2100 block of N. Sawyer, when my friends watch the movie I always mention that I lived a couple of blocks from the church. Other movies, The Breakup, Stranger than Fiction, Ferris Bueller

Hands Down... Cooley High!

I'd have to say BACKDRAFT was a great film that was shot in the suburbs of Chicago. One that I think is often overlooked.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off without a doubt. It's a classic. There are not many people who couldn't identify with it. Such a great example of American pop culture. The movie was hilarious and a success for its time. I am proud that the other great films listed were filmed in our beautiful city. I am sure we will see more in the future.

ALL OF THEM!!!!

Two movies - Blues Bros. & The Fugitive. Why? My sister was an extra in both of them. Way to go Donna!

The Fugitive- with Harrison Ford!
Cook County Hospital
City Hall
ECT...

Stir of Echoes!

The Fugitive- with Harrison Ford!
Cook County Hospital
City Hall
ECT...

To the I miss Chicago person who moved to Dallas. What do you miss more, the pizza or the beef & sausage combo sandwiches?

About last night! Lowe,Belushi,Moore, and Perkins. Or the John Candy and Ally Sheely movie about his being an officer and having a late night picnic on the infield of old Comiskey Park.

Blues Bros. And BACKDRAFT? SUBURBS ARE NOT CHICAGO! what are you people thinking? You dont live in chicago you dont pay chicago taxes youre not chicagoans ur suburbanites. Anyway, Road to Perdition was pretty good too.

I posted an answer to the question yesterday morning early but I dont see my answer here my answer was The Break-UP but i submitted my answer early yesterday. Why wasnt mine posted along with everyone elses? Just wondering

“Appointment with Danger” (released in 1951 with Alan Ladd, Jack Webb, Henry Morgan, Phyliss Calvert and more) includes easily recognized scenes of South Chicago and the East Side (the real East Side - not the "New East Side") that appeared in the movie which was supposedly set in Gary Indiana. Among the SE Side sites that appeared in the movie were Immaculate Conception church (exterior and interior shots), the 92nd and 95th Street Bridges and Harbor Avenue, the Calumet River, and several industrial shots. What is most interesting about these scenes is that they capture what the area looked like in the 1950s. Of course “The Blues Brothers” (my favorite movie ever made in Chicago) had several scenes filmed on the Southeast Side. The most recognizable ones were the bridge jumping scene at the 95th Street Bridge and the gospel music scene at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Triple Rock Baptist Church in the movie. Other less well known scenes were shot at 95th Street under the Skyway and at a local beauty salon at 85th and Burley, The Curl Up and Dye Shop in the movie. Other movies shot in this area include the two “Barber Shop” movies which were set near the intersection of 79th and Exchange. “Road to Perdition” with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman includes a scene from the former Ringer Real Estate Office near 79th and Exchange. If you have seen the movie, the first bank robbery committed by Tom Hank’s character was filmed at the above location.

Set on the North side and around the El and the Chicago River, I loved High Fidelity with Chicagoans John and Joan Cusack. Since I've moved away, it definitely evoked the Chicago I grew up in. With Jack Black, it has one of the funniest comedy scenes he's done. Check it out.

It would have to be My Best Friend's Wedding

Batman Begins. Although "Gotham" is redesigned with digital buildings, you can still see many recognizable Chicago landmarks, such as the LaSalle street bridge and Lower Wacker.

I think you're all too young - but the movie that said Tom Cruise was on the Superstar Track and really made both the City and the Burbs more interesting (at least the 'burbs, anyway) than they should be was "Risky Business"

I mean, watch that movie and tell me if Rush Street, the Gold Coast high rise view over the lake, Lincoln Park could look any better! The very elegant lobby of The Drake, the great chase under the LSD overpass to get on to Lake Shore Drive in Dad's Porsche...

And when you watch 'that' scene, when you hear Phil Collin's "Something in the Air Tonight" - will you ever ride the Brown line 'El' and not secretly think to yourself ... "Hmmm, it's late, there's no one one else on here. Honey ...?"

And that same old green livery El car is, or at least was, at the west side 'Chicago Studio City' a few years ago, too.

For those of you who aren't familiar with it, that was the big ol' factory complex that got turned into movie studios about 10 years back to shoot the TV series "The Untouchables".

How do I know all this? Well, even though I'm an Aussie, I lived in the City with Big Shoulders for more than 10 years and its always been my second home town. I'm there several times a year to see friends and family and especially in Summer I miss it more than I can say. Another thing I miss is a very tall Goose Island lager and a dipped 'Eyetalian beef & sausage combo from several vendors around the city ... oh, and a thin crust Italian sausage pizza from Martinos up in Peterson Park.

I've got several: The Blues Brothers, Road to Perdition, High Fidelity, The Fugitive, Call Northside 777, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Hard to pick just one.

While You Were Sleeping-- hands down one of the best movies ever filmed in Chicago. Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock are both hysterical in this film.

it's I,Robot with Will Smith for me. It was interesting to see Chicago in the future where the river was gone and people were able to walk over it.

The classic "Call Northside 777" -- Jimmy Stewart is a journalist who works to spring an innocent man from prison. It's realistic -- he asks if his expenses will be covered before he goes to work. The old neighborhood shots are great.

Cooley High.... Was a movie that reminded you of old friendship and how your past can influence your future.

Childs play

Cooley High enough of the white fantasy movies.

Michael Mann's "Thief" with James Caan and "The Weather Man," one of the most underrated films of all time.

My Favorite Chicago Movies

1. Batman Begins
2. The Untouchables
3. North by Northwest
4. Barbershop
5. The Fugitive

To David P. Kushner

If you root for the Cubs, you're from Chicago. Get over yourself.

As for a movie, I'd go with The Untouchables. I still can't walk through the train station without seeing that baby carriage roll down the staircase.

I CAN'T BELIEVE NO ONE HAS SAID PAYBACK!! Payback with Mel Gibson was full of the sights of downtown, but yeah Barbershop 1&2 holds it down.

Jamez, we were all having fun with this until you had to bring your racism to the table. Maybe you would be more at home on Mary Mitchell's blog.

Cooley High!!!

I remember Ferris Bueller because I was in it!
To this day, I have friends, former co-workers and family members ask me, "Was that you in that movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"?"
I was in the parade scene after the dancers on the steps and the small child in a stroller.

My faves were: LOVE JONES, SOUL FOOD, PAYBACK

PROOF

Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jake Gyllenhaal, a beautiful Chicago-Style Bungalow house filmed in Evanston, need I say more?

Now get back to work and finish doing your Taxes!

Running Scared. When else do you get to see a car jump on the 'L' tracks at O'Hare and end up at the Merchandise Mart? Awesome

The Lake House, which starred Keanu Reeves & Sandra Bullock, was filmed at Maple Lake in the S.W. burbs & in Riverside. Keanu actually walked past my car during a scene & I later discovered it was in the movie.

SWEET HOME CHICAGO !!! SECOND TO NONE. What about 'My Bodyguard'
(1980) filmed in and around Lake View H.S. on da nortside.

Without a doubt the hugh cast of the Fugitive created an excitement never previously experienced in my career as an Extra in Chicago-Made Movies.

Working on the set was a blast because every size, shape, and profession was represented in the movie as Extras, from anchor men and women to the SWAT team.

An incident happened in Grant Park was we collected for the final scene on the street of Michigan Avenue in front of the Congress Hotel and the entrance into the park pillared by Indian archers, I believe.

The SWAT team was busy with extra duties not to notice that the available non-working Chicago police had apprehended a perpetrator doing some criminal act right behind the extras and loamed in the park's outer grassland. What he was caught doing skips my memory, but perhaps somebody was their to remember it?

If so, please respond to his criminal act which caused the police to arrest him.

I loved the movie as great entertainment with the opening scene to the last scene in which all of the extras were under the opinion that some of us might be seen, but when the scene arrived the camera was way up and we were as small as ants.

That's the Chicago way!

no one said : LOVEJONES

Cooley High and Blues Brother Baby!!!!! Two of the best films I might add.

About once a year (100 hours) - my friends and I pull out all these dvds and laserdiscs and watch movies either filmed or set in Chicago. Plus working for the CTA - we try to see if the CTA was in any of the shots - stations, buildings, buses, trains.

My personal favorites (not in any order) are:

Backdraft, I Robot, A Sound of Thunder, The Relic, Adventures in Babysitting, Wayne's World, The Untouchables, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Cooley High, The Blues Brothers, Stir of Echoes, Judgment Night, Child's Play, Mercury Rising, Batman Begins, Roll Bounce, Barbershop, The Weather Man, Poltergeist III, Thief, Only the Lonely, Rookie of the Year, The Babe, About Last Night, Betrayed, Limit Up, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Negotiator, National Lampoon's Vacation, Next of Kin, Above the Law, Excessive Force, Rapid Fire, Payback, Red Heat, Flatliners, Wildcats, Running Scared, High Fidelity, While You Were Sleeping, Hoffa, US Marshals, Straight Talk, V.I. Warshawski, Vice Versa and Spiderman 2!!!

Can't Wait for Wanted and the Dark Knight

Sorry, I'm an old timer. Lady Sings the Blues is my favorite. I had a part as an extra on 43rd st with my big apple hat on.