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Ok we're going to start off my photos from Chicago with something that maybe no one here will care about, but I'm gonna give a shot...
The older I get the more I appreciate John Hughes and his stable of movies, and the more I look into them the more I realize they were all shot in a fairly concentrated section of Chicago, from the downtown "Loop" up into the tony suburbs of the North Shore, which is where he grew up. So when plans for a vacation to Chicago materialized earlier in the year I made it clear to my wife and the other people in our group that I wanted to do a John Hughes filming location tour one of the days with a focus on the suburban spots as seen in Home Alone, Ferris Buller's Day Off, Uncle Buck, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles.
We're going to get the most obvious location out of the way first and start with the Home Alone house
^^ The garage (which Kevin's dad left the doors open to... whoops!) is no longer there
Also this was a proper tourist location with ~15 people milling about at any given moment
Old man Marley next door... we never see more of his house than in this shot
Turns out he has a really freaking nice house, now covered in cedar shingles
Time to race off to the airport! (We'll never make it)
No more driveway loop
Surely no one ever noticed the subtle American Airlines brand placement in either Home Alone 1 or 2, but believe it or not but the family uses American Airlines and the American Airlines terminal at O'Hare for these scenes. And as it turns out we flew American Airlines to get out there AND of course deplaned at the American Airlines terminal! How amazing is that?!
This is officially known as the Hall of Flags and they filmed there for both movies. Below is from Home Alone 2. Also I want that tan cashmere trench coat
Further down the concourse
Now it's off to the village of Hubbard Woods in the town of Winnetka, where the drugstore scene (where Kevin accidentally steals a toothbrush) and park ice pond scene were filmed.
That park building more or less sits in the middle of where the ice pond was
Kevin then runs towards a small Metra station and continues across the pedestrian bridge to everlasting safety
Ok we're going to start off my photos from Chicago with something that maybe no one here will care about, but I'm gonna give a shot...
The older I get the more I appreciate John Hughes and his stable of movies, and the more I look into them the more I realize they were all shot in a fairly concentrated section of Chicago, from the downtown "Loop" up into the tony suburbs of the North Shore, which is where he grew up. So when plans for a vacation to Chicago materialized earlier in the year I made it clear to my wife and the other people in our group that I wanted to do a John Hughes filming location tour one of the days with a focus on the suburban spots as seen in Home Alone, Ferris Buller's Day Off, Uncle Buck, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles.
We're going to get the most obvious location out of the way first and start with the Home Alone house
^^ The garage (which Kevin's dad left the doors open to... whoops!) is no longer there
Also this was a proper tourist location with ~15 people milling about at any given moment
Old man Marley next door... we never see more of his house than in this shot
Turns out he has a really freaking nice house, now covered in cedar shingles
Time to race off to the airport! (We'll never make it)
No more driveway loop
Surely no one ever noticed the subtle American Airlines brand placement in either Home Alone 1 or 2, but believe it or not but the family uses American Airlines and the American Airlines terminal at O'Hare for these scenes. And as it turns out we flew American Airlines to get out there AND of course deplaned at the American Airlines terminal! How amazing is that?!
This is officially known as the Hall of Flags and they filmed there for both movies. Below is from Home Alone 2. Also I want that tan cashmere trench coat
Further down the concourse
Now it's off to the village of Hubbard Woods in the town of Winnetka, where the drugstore scene (where Kevin accidentally steals a toothbrush) and park ice pond scene were filmed.
That park building more or less sits in the middle of where the ice pond was
Kevin then runs towards a small Metra station and continues across the pedestrian bridge to everlasting safety
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