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Palmer House Hilton
The Art Institute of
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Chicago
Wrongly accused and
convicted of murder, Dr. Richard The high-school comedy Ferris
Kimble (Harrison Ford) dodges Bueller’s Day Off (1986) stars Matthew
the authorities led by Tommy Lee Broderick, who skips school and
Jones to prove his innocence in takes his girlfriend (Mia Sara) and
The Fugitive (1993). He winds up in a best friend (Alan Ruck) on an action-
pulse-pounding chase through this packed day. At the Art Institute,
grand hotel (see p117) onto its roof, Broderick and Sara kiss in front of a
down its elevator shaft, and into the window designed by Chagall, while
hotel’s laundry room. Ruck stares intensely at A Sunday on
La Grande Jatte –1884 (see pp14–15).
Randolph “L” Station
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MAP L4
The “L” tracks are an apt symbol of
hard-working Chicago, and they
feature significantly in the romantic
comedy While You Were Sleeping
(1995). Sandra Bullock plays an “L”
station clerk who falls in love with a
handsome commuter. He tumbles
off the platform, Bullock saves his
life, and comedy and romance ensue. Ferris at The Art Institute of Chicago
Union Station
Wrigley Building
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In Road to Perdition (2002) Tom
MAP J4 • 210 S. Canal St.
Hanks is Michael Sullivan, an Irish Elliott Ness (Kevin Costner) brings
gangster living in 1930s Chicago. down Chicago gangster Al Capone
After his wife and young son are (Robert DeNiro) in the true story
murdered, he flees town with his The Untouchables (1987). In one
older son. In seeking a safe refuge, unforgettable scene, a shoot-out on
they enter a hotel, the exterior of a Union Station staircase causes a
which is the beautiful Wrigley mother to lose her grip on her baby
Building (see p33). However, the carriage, which bounces in slow
interior scenes were actually filmed motion down the stairs, saved at the
at the Palmer House Hilton. last moment by Ness’s partner.

Union Station staircase sets the scene for The Untouchables

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