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Film Locations

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Grant Scare-fest The Relic (1997)
Park
starred Penelope Ann Miller and
Tom Sizemore as researchers trying
to stop a murderous monster before
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near-perfect matches to the real
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In Chain Reaction (1996), Keanu
Wrigley Field
Reeves is a science student at the 4
University of Chicago (see p101) who The 1914-vintage Wrigley Field
is framed for murder. In a nail-biting (see p87), home to the Chicago Cubs,
chase scene, he trys to escape by has starred in numerous baseball
running up the Michigan Avenue movies, including The Natural, Rookie
Bridge (see p32) as it’s raised. of the Year, and A League of Their
Own. It also has a cameo in The Blues
Brothers and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
Drake Hotel
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In feel-good film Hero (1992),
John Bubber (Andy Garcia) dupes the
public into thinking he’s a hero.
Feeling guilty, he resolves to jump off
a window ledge at The Drake (see
p117). Reality interrupted the filming
when guests arrived for a party at
the hotel. Director Stephen Frears
Michigan Avenue Bridge, featured protested and almost got arrested.
in Chain Reaction
Daley Center and Plaza
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Daley Plaza (see p75) was the
setting for a chase scene in cult
movie classic The Blues Brothers
(1980). Stars John Belushi and Dan
Aykroyd, playing ex-criminal brothers,
dramatically crash their car through
the center’s plate-glass windows,
specially installed for the filming. A scene from Hero in the Drake Hotel
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