Chicago filmed movies

As Henry and Otis scour their small part of the world, including the effectively used Lower Wacker Drive, one can feel how easy it is to get lost in a city as crowded as Chicago. Chicagoan John Cusack adds an air of authenticity to scenes shot in Wicker Park, one of the most artistically vibrant neighborhoods in the city at the time of shooting.

Back when people still went to record stores, many of them were in Wicker Park, and this film now serves almost as a eulogy to an end of an era in the city. Shot mostly in Winnetka, a neighbor of the suburb Northbrook in which writer John Hughes himself grew up, Home Alone captures the look of the northern suburbs while also taking a quick trip to a church in Oak Park.

Shot over five years, during which the filmmakers accumulated hours of footage, Hoop Dreams became a document not just of the lives of William Gates and Arthur Agee but of thousands of kids like them on the South Side of Chicago. Seen today, it really is a time capsule of life in a major city during one of the most socially tumultuous times in modern history, climaxing with footage that Wexler shot at the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago in Some films use Chicago as a rather personality-less backdrop, but P.

Hogan hops all over the Windy City in what feels like an effort to highlight its beauty and vibrance. Mendes and master cinematographer Conrad L.

Now several scripted projects are shooting in the Chicago area with plans to film even more in the coming months. Production is ramping up in the city as Cinespace Chicago Film Studios announced plans to add 19 more sound stages to its expanding Southwest Side footprint. The reconfiguration will allow Cinespace to increase its number of soundstages from 42 to Cast and crew members of TV shows that were supposed to film new seasons last spring and summer have slowly returned to the city.

State and local officials have expressed optimism will be a banner filming year. When Danny Ocean George Clooney gets out of prison, he creates a group with 11 of his friends and plans to rob three Las Vegas casinos at the same time. Alfred Molina. Peter struggles to balance his roles as superhero and crime-fighter with being a friend, boyfriend and son. The runaway train scene was filmed on the Chicago L train.

Dr Richard Kimble, played by Harrison Ford, is wrongfully accused of murdering his wife. After he is tried, convicted and sentenced to death, he miraculously escapes on the way to prison. She has never been in a relationship and never been kissed, but when her boss assigns her to go undercover at a her old high school for a report, all of that begins to change. When Jake Blues John Belushi gets out of prison, he tries to get his old band back together in order to save the Catholic boarding school where he and his brother grew up.

However, in their do-good efforts, they end up making more enemies than friends. The Palace Hotel Ballroom and the place where the Bluesmobile finally comes to an end can both be found in downtown Chicago. This comic fantasy combines animation with live action. Michael Jordan agrees to help the Looney Tunes characters create a team and play a basketball game against the alien slavers in a competition that will determine their freedom. In the film and in reality at the time Michael Jordan plays for the Chicago Bulls.

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