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“The Legendary Chicago Theatre” is now approaching its 104th birthday.
By Megan McKinney
What a great motion picture city Chicago is—photogenic, individualistic, never to be confused with another American city. See below:
The vintage LaSalle Street of yesteryear leading to the Chicago Board of Trade Building was a stunning sight in the 1987 film The Untouchables.
Same location, different vibes in The Dark Knight of Batman fame.
And the great skyline framing a runaway Ferrari was a beauty in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off of 1986. There have been many marvelous films made in or about the city and its surroundings since the midcentury days of Otto Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm starring Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak.
Remember Robert Redford and Paul Newman in 1973’s The Sting ?
With Paul Newman returning to Chicago in 1986 to join Tom Cruise in The Color of Money.
And again in 2002 to be with Tom Hanks and Jude Law in Road to Perdition.
Where does 1997’s My Best Friend’s Wedding take place? Across from Water Tower Place in the Fourth Presbyterian Church.
We had The Blues Brothers starring Dan Aykroyd and the late John Belushi in 1980.
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And this view from 1986’s About Last Night shoots a ping of nostalgia to those who have lived near Division Street.
How we remember Harrison Ford in 1993’s The Fugitive.
And back in 1981, James Caan in Thief, with a cast that included Willie Nelson and Tuesday Weld.
While You Were Sleeping of the same year showed the non-English reading world another portion Chicago’s transit system.
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