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About Last Night | DVD (1986)

Backdraft | DVD (1991)

The Breakfast Club | DVD (1985)

Filmed in Chicago, Des Plaines (including Maine North High School), and Northbrook (including Glenbrook North High School)

Blues Brothers | DVD (1980)

Chain Reaction | DVD (1996)

Chicago | DVD (2003)

Class (1983)
Filmed in Chicago, Evanston and Lake Forest

Code of Silence | DVD (1985)


Ferris Beuhler's Day Off | DVD (1981)

Fugitive | DVD (1993)

Home Alone | DVD (1990)

Filmed in Chicago, at Haven Middle School in Evanston (Christmas Choir), Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, in Highland Park, at Trinity Methodist Church in Wilmette, and Hubbard Oaks Metro Station (railroad track bridge) and Panera Bread Company in Winnetka

Home Alone 2 | DVD (1992)

Home Alone 3 | DVD (1997)

A League of Their Own | DVD (1992)
Filmed at Wrigley Field and at the Illinois
Railway Museum in Union, Illinois

Lost Treasure |
DVD (2003)

Opening scene showing Chicago Engine Company 17 responding to a riverfront fire at an art museum. Fireboats heavy on exterior attack. 'Backdraft'-like interior firefighting scenes. Then its on to finding the lost treasure. Stars Stephen Baldwin and Nicolette Sheridan

Lucas (1986)

The indoor high school sets were filmed at Arlington High School (Grace Gym foyer, Grace Gym, Grace Gym Main Stage Pep Rally, hallways, library-turned-cafeteria). The Cardinal Code is still hanging -- briefly and barely visible in the film. Outdoor filming is set at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn.

Major League | DVD (1989)

Major League 2 | DVD (1994)

Normal Life (1996)

Film about a true story of husband and wife
bank robbers who robbed banks in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Filmed in Arlington Heights, Bartlett, Des Plaines, Franklin Park, Hanover Park, Hoffman Estates, Norridge, Northbrook, River Grove, Rolling Meadows Schaumburg, Schiller Park, and Streamwood, Illinois.

Novacaine | DVD (2001)

Ordinary People | DVD (1980)

Filmed in Chicago, Fort Sheridan, Illinois, Highland Park, Lake Bluff, and Lake Forest, Illinois

Pennies from Heaven | DVD (1981)

Planes, Trains and Automobiles | DVD (1982)

Pretty in Pink | DVD (1986)

Red Heat | DVD (1988)

She's Having a Baby | DVD (1988)

Filmed in Chicago, (Nightclub scenes at Excalibur and other scenes at Field Museum of Natural History), Glencoe Metro Station in Glencoe, at Sunset Food Mart in Northbrook, and Winnetka Congregational Church in Winnetka

Sixteen Candles | DVD (1984)

Things Change | DVD (1988)

When Harry Met Sally | DVD (1989)
Filmed at University of Chicago and Hyde Park, Chicago

Uncle Buck | DVD (1989)

Filmed in Chicago, at the Russell house in Evanston, at Windy City Bowling Alley in Cicero, in Glencoe, in Highland Park, Lake Forest, Lake Geneva, WI, at New Trier High School in Winnetka, at New Trier West High School in Northfield, in Northbrook, Riverwoods,Wilmette, and Winnetka, Illinois

The Untouchables | DVD (1987)
Filmed at Roosevelt University and Union Station

U.S. Marshals | DVD (1998)

Wayne's World | DVD (1992)

Wayne's World 2 | DVD (1993)

Wayne's World 1 & 2 DVD (1992 & 1993)

Wildcats | DVD (1986)


See also City of Chicago Film Office