Chicago

8 films and 39 exactly located places in Chicago.

Where it was shot · 39 places mapped

Films (8)

• Divergent (2014)
  9 exact places
  Future Chicago was built from a church, an empty lot on Wells Street, a few streets of fake L tracks and a film studio, and only the Navy Pier Ferris wheel is the real thing.
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
  5 exact places
  One skipped school day, one Chicago route: the loop skyscrapers are real, but the family house is in California
• Home Alone (1990)
  1 exact places
  Paris is a Chicago airport: where Kevin's family flew from, and the real house they left him in
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
  5 exact places
  Lost in New York, but the toy store, the hotel pool and the suite are Chicago, and the uncle's house is a Los Angeles backlot.
• The Blues Brothers (1980)
  3 exact places
  A mission from God, filmed across two cities and a closed mall: the bridge jump, the orphanage facade and the ballroom that is really in Los Angeles
• The Untouchables (1987)
  12 exact places
  Prohibition-era Chicago on screen: the real buildings behind Ness's office, Capone's hotel and the station stairs, and a Montana bridge that played the Canadian border
• Wanted (2008)
  3 exact places
  The Chicago of Wanted was largely built in Prague, in an old sugar factory
• When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
  1 exact places
  Twelve years of New York talk, and most of the places can be walked into today

Set in vs. shot in

Walkable clusters of filming places

• 22 places within about 1.5 km, around Loop (6 films)
• 3 places within about 1.5 km, around Near West Side, Chicago (2 films)
• 3 places within about 1.5 km, around Wrigleyville (3 films)

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