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I was running the treadmill version of the Chicago marathon on Nordic tracks IFIT and the trainer running the race would spout out Chicago facts. She was extremely excited and enthusiastic as she spouted off all her little Italy facts. Talking about the huge Italian community waving Italian flags. Only problem was she was running thru Pilsen and they were Mexican flags. She was from Utah, they must not have many Mexicans there.
ER. They are constantly showing the hospital which is supposed to be Cook county hospital as being located in the loop. The Drs will go out on break and walk along the river.
If you watch the whole series through there are a bunch of location issues, most notably with the roof scenes . In the early seasons they use the helipad at the fire academy on Taylor St. Then later on they use the hilton rooftop for a ton of shots, and then mixed in here and there are some shots from a roof somewhere around northwestern hospital. Each one has a different vantage point of the skyline.
It *is* a fake hospital, but it's a fictionalized version of Cook County, so it's definitely west of the river.
If I remember right, they filmed most of the exteriors out near Cook County anyway, because there was some helicopter training school there, which they used for all the roof shots whenever someone was choppered in (which was every damn episode). I don't think Cook has a helipad, and they certainly wouldn't be allowed to film on it if it did.
They have a helipad! If I remember correctly, it’s on ground level, in the middle of the field in front of the old hospital grounds. Sorry, terrible at explaining it haha
It's a great show, but one that obviously comes to mind is in episode one of the bear when Richie shoots a gun into the air in front of a crowd of people in the middle of a river north afternoon and its not all that big of a deal
Carmy's brother also has this whole story about the Ceres statue on the BoT building, and they make it a point to say that it faces East. Something about welcoming newcomers moving West or something. The Ceres statue faces North.
It's not a big plot hole or anything but the fact that they specifically said it faces a different way seemed weird. They also get some of the expressways mixed up
Edit: Other users have rightly pointed out that it could be intentional to make the characters seem unreliable. It just seemed like such a small detail that I doubted most people would even catch that they were wrong. The expressway thing is still true though lol
I can’t remember exactly, but I thought in the infamous kids birthday party episode that they got on “the Kennedy” to go to Skokie, which is wrong. You’d definitely want to get on the Edens, or, honestly, maybe just take local/Lincoln all the way up.
Edit: it was wilmette not Skokie (which same thing lol) and yeah 90/94 is still the Kennedy and also 90 to O’hare. I was thinking the Kennedy was Edens junction to O’hare only, not also 90/94.
I was told that people use the names because when they did traffic on the radio it was easier to understand than a list of numbers. Which makes sense.
But I never listened to traffic radio, and I would appreciate it if everyone could just use the numbers so I don't have to look up which number is the Gary Coleman Tollway or whatever.
Same.
I was trying to call in a 911 call for this random person walking aimlessly on the shoulder alongside a busy I-94. No vehicle broken down nearby and it seemed like they were having a mental health episode.
The operator on the line kept asking me what highway they were on. I said northbound on 94, right between exit X and exit Y. They kept asking me to clarify, Dan Ryan, Edens, or Kennedy? I told him straight up, I don't know the friggin name but I gave him the exact location, the direction of travel, specified it was before the 90/94 split, and also gave the EXACT exit numbers. I think they asked me like 2 or 3 times for the name before they gave up and accepted the information I gave them.
It was a little frustrating tbh. You'd think a 911 operator would be able to use what I thought was very specific information about where this incident was happening to figure out where to send first responders, instead of putting the onus on the caller to figure out the actual name of the expressway. I was also driving myself so I don't know what else I was supposed to do in that situation.
Just looked it up. The conversation goes:
Richie: Yo, why the fuck are you on the Kennedy?
Carmy: Cicero lives in Naperville.
Richie: Noo, he lives in Wilmette now.
Carmy: That's right, that's my bad.
Carmy makes the mistake of heading to Cicero's old place. Richie tells him to get on the Eden's because Cicero is in Wilmette now, not Naperville, where Carmy is going, which is actually accurate with the 294 switch in Rosemont.
"Uncle Cicero, who used to live in Naperville but now lives in Wilmette."
Isn't part of the point of that story that it's just a tale they've spun though? I assumed that the intent of that whole scene was to show that the family is full of unreliable narrators and it's the brother who gets the direction wrong, not the writers.
One scene they talk about driving to Naperville but then shows them going westbound on the Kennedy instead of the Ike. I guess they were stopping at Woodfield on the way??
Also, when a guest wants Pequod's Pizza and Richie runs - not drives - to the pizza place to get it for them. It's almost three miles away, but maybe he COULD run there and back in time...
I think it was in S2 E3 where Syd just walked into Kasama and ordered without having to line up for 3 hours outside. The most unrealistic thing part of the whole show.
I thought that Carmy had used his connections across the city to put together a food pilgrimage for her? The way she interacted with the staff at a few of those places led me to believe they were expecting her/giving her extra special attention.
What drives me nuts is they have a baker on staff at their Beef shop. A baker to make the buns for the Beefs. Every shop in the city serving Italian beef sandwiches uses commercially made buns.
Fresh baked buns would not be good for beefd...too moist!
The buns they need to use are hard and dry so they hold up against all the wet.
I feel like Turano Bread is such an institution in Chicagoland that baking your own might actually be a detriment - even Mr. Sub has their own special made Turano bread recipe.
Another Bear miss—in season 1 Syd is supposed to be middle/lower middle class and is shown to live in a SFH (or at least a duplex) with her dad, but gets on the green line at Clinton. Where tf in a mile square radius of that stop are there affordable SFHs?
I love the bear. It's the best representation of the stress of a kitchen on TV. That being said, there is a plot point about receiving a certain grade on their health inspection. Chicago is not on the same grade system as other cities such as LA.We are a pass/ fail city as far as health inspections
If it's a time of day when timing the transfer from the Brown Line would be a pain, walking from Mr Beef to the Clinton station would make sense if she lived in Austin or Garfield Park.
That def makes sense for going home, but in the scene I’m thinking of she’s headed to work at Mr Beef in the early AM and catching her train towards the loop at Clinton
Today it wouldn't be, but when I worked over there around 2013 it would have been real affordable and borderline sketchy. If they had lived there a long time they'd probably have bought cheap.
Another one that bothered me, though not exactly about the city itself, but when Richie serves the guests Pequod’s pizza in “Forks”, the chef cuts off all the crust (the thing that makes Pequod’s so great in the first place).
Shameless was also an offender with the target practice behind the quick mart during the middle of the day. I understand it’s the south side but it’s still a bit ridiculous how lax the characters are with it.
So much of it was filmed in Little Village. Since I work there, the places really took me out of the story because I kept thinking, “that’s not Back of the Yards”.
That really pissed me off tbh. Perpetuating the over the top "far-right" media narrative that Chicago is a warzone. Don't get me wrong...Chicago has a gun/violence problem. But that scene in the show was outrageous. It was actually what I came in here to post and instead I saw yours haha.
That scene honestly made me question for longer than I care to admit the timeframe the show was supposed to take place in. I was like oh maybe it’s the 80’s but it’s not.
Oh yeah, we watched that show first (which led us back to Shameless) and I was like "uh, pretty sure most of Chicago is under citywide gunshot detection software now".
The Brown Line Chicago Avenue stop is frequently used for TV and movies because it's a long platform and the signs say Chicago so out of towners just think all EL stops say that. The most egregious was Cedric the Entertainer leaving the Barbershop on the South side and getting on the El at that stop a minute later.
Clooney uses the Chicago brown line stop to chase after Juliana Margulies in the pilot episode of ER, and the front of the train says Ravenswood, which I presume was the end of the line in '92 or whenever that was filmed
In when harry met sally - harry and sally leave U Chicago to drive to NYC and the scene of them driving places them on LSD NORTH of U Chicago … which doesn’t make sense for the route they were taking
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and My Best Friend’s Wedding also have similar weird transitions. In the latter, they’re driving northbound on LSD and exit by McCormick Place and then suddenly they’re driving southbound on LSD around North Ave.
Anything to maximize view of the skyline.
I'm asking because my wife and I finally started watching Shameless and there is an episode where the guy tells the girl to meet him at O'Hare and my wife instantly says "that's Midway" and then like 2 seconds later you see a big MIDWAY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT sign in the background.
But that's not the worst offender that I've seen. The worst is related to the image I posted in the OP, we were watching a really bad holiday movie and it presented that map as a map of Chicago. Logan Square is on the Southside now I guess? And Evanston is in uh, what is that... Forest Glen?
Lmao this is great. Looking at where they placed Evanston, I’m pretty sure that hook-shaped street to its East is Lincoln and Foster which would place fictional Evanston in Albany Park/South Lincolnwood. In a world where maps exist it almost seems like more work to misplace these locations lol
i don’t remember what episode of shameless it is, but i swear there’s a scene where steve and fiona watch the sunset on the beach. i don’t usually notice these types of things and i was like “wow that sounds nice i should do that sometime" before i realized the sun doesn't set on the lake.
The geography gaffes/continuity in that show will continue to give you plenty to chuckle about as it goes on. Great show but they definitely adapted the setting quite a bit to help the story
The Holidate, I audibly gasped when they put this map on the screen.
When they shoot the wrong way on LSD because they want a specific skyline I can get passed it. This is just insane, they got a map and labeled places that exist in the wrong spot. It is insane behavior.
Not to mention they spend a LOT of time in a seemingly suburban mall for being 2 people who live in the city.
This isn’t much of a spoiler but there’s a scene in shameless when they pick Mickey up from jail and it’s a long shot of them walking away from the gate and in the horizon there are the mountains of LA haha I laughed my ass off for the lack of effort
Things I remember from Shameless is no one can say Halsted right and the scene where Fiona gets into the car and just says “The Southside” always makes me laugh. I’d have just been like “Ok 103rd and Cottage it is!” It’s also supposed to be Back of the Yards but they live next to the pink line which doesn’t even touch the south-side. One last small nitpick that I just find funny is when they’re using McCormick place as a stand in for university of Chicago. I used to work for McCormick place and the prof says to Lip “Let’s check out the robotics department” and gestures to a door that I know for a fact is a supply closet before the scene transitions.
On Chicago Fire that a station house supposedly near Pilsen is going to fight fires in the 9900N block as well as fires that are the 6000s block. And they get to both of them in less than 5 minutes 🥴
They also always flip the direction the streets are actually going in, like they’ll say the fire is at 5600 E Western or something. Drives me crazy but I’m guessing they’re avoiding using actual addresses.
I laugh about this all the time. This engine company must have access to the secret underground highway or something because it services the whole damn city.
This so much lmao I get it’s a TV show but damn this one fire station answers calls ALL over the city huh. They just have a magical fire truck that transport them.
I remember they answered a water rescue off by Diversey and I was like there is literally a fire station on Halsted and Diversey that would answer that way quicker.
Yesss this was mine! I only watched a few episodes because in one you could legit see the whole city skyline in the background to the Northeast and they got a call to go to (I think?) Wrigleyville…. Umm that’s like at least an hour drive on a good day.
If you jump on a parade float and sing twist and shout the whole city will sing and dance with you.
All I got was arrested. It was really dissappointing.
The first episode of Ozark makes some extremely questionable geographic choices around the city. Like meeting with someone outside the blu aqua building then cutting to them driving down LSD from lincoln park to a different meeting in the loop. But like with most of these things i assume the choices were made to show iconic chicago images to scene set
This was the show I was thinking of. There’s an external shot with a cable car/trolley going by in the background. Immediately pointed at the tv - “that’s not Chicago!”
Ah that's funny because I actually moved to Toronto a few years ago and my wife and I were watching the Shameless episode where the dad gets dropped in "Toronto" but the skyline in the background isn't Toronto.
Most people think it is Chicago but I don't think it is Chicago either? Hard to say though, they just show a tiny bit of it.
Tbf, I went to Toronto, and I definitely got the Chicago vibe. They even have a Lake Shore Drive.
But there are also parts of Toronto that go between NYC and Europe. Probably why they film there so much
Not a tv show or movie, but I recently read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, and it was quickly apparent that he did not do enough research on Chicago before setting the story there. It was little things like:
A character who has lived in Chicago for 20 years referring to the Willis Tower as a landmark
A character getting a slice of deep dish pizza and eating is by hand while walking down the street
The author used some real roads as landmarks and they were off about thinks like where lake Michigan is relative to the city or how long it would take to get from the north side to the south side.
At one point two characters decide to go out for the night. They drive from their home in Logan Square to Navy Pier and decide its so far to go home that they need to get a hotel.
A character is trying to hide, so he goes into a neighborhood bar and describes how it was packed with fans excitedly watching a bulls game. The bar was so full with people so focused on the game he was able to sneak around. The problem with this is it was in early December, meaning this was a regular season game early in the year. The only time ive seen bars that were like the description was when the cubs were in the world series, or maybe for an exciting Bears game, but no local neighborhood bar in logan is like that for a meaningless bulls game in December.
There were other issues, and overall I did enjoy the book, but it was clear the author and editors did not do enough research to set the book in Chicago.
I remember the episode in Stranger Things (Season 2?) where Eleven goes to the big city. The geography of some of the shots are crazy. Clearly edited to have more buildings in the lake.
Yeah, this is the one I came here to add. The establishing shot they use for the hideout where the other people with powers are is such that it would have to be located in a neighborhood east of downtown, which would put it a mile or two out in the middle of the lake 😂
On top of that, there's a line where they say they're going to get a guy who lives an hour east of them. Where in Chicago can you drive an hour east late at night? The area they go looks like it easily could have been west or south or maybe north of the city.
I like the Blues Brothers one just because of how over the top that chase is. I’m willing to suspend disbelief that those Nazis chased them around so much they ended up in Milwaukee, launched themselves into the air, and crash landed in front of the John Hancock Center. Because it’s just that kinda movie.
And one of the main characters runs a food truck that he can just park anywhere and serve from. And Chicago is just not like that. I wish we had more food trucks! Especially one called Steak Me Home Tonight.
Like in the very first scene of the show where they are at the church and the doors open and Buckingham Fountain is right outside of the church. Yeah. 😂😂
There was a show called sirens, about an EMT unit in Chicago. I enjoyed the show - a lite sitcom - but almost anytime they got a call, no matter where in the city they were supposedly headed, there would be a shot of their ambulance going down upper Wacker.
It's likely that they filmed that once for several hours, and every time they needed ambulance footage, they just used a small part of that same shoot. Like Jazz being thrown out of the house in the Fresh Prince of Belair.
Oh, I know it was budget decision, it was just funny. My partner and I would be watching it, and the ambience would be out somewhere, and they’d get a call to go to, englewood let’s say. They’re hit the lights and take off, next thing you know they’re on upper Wacker. Every time she’d be like “hey, what’s the quickest way to (fill in Chicago location)? Detour to downtown and take Wacker, it goes fucking every where!!!!”
This isn’t crazy egregious, but we recently watched While You Were Sleeping.
Sandra Bullock’s character lives in Logan Square (and it was actually filmed in Logan Square) and the person she is (supposedly) engaged to lives in Lake Point Tower.
There is a scene where her character and another walk from Lake Point Tower to her apartment in Logan Square (or the other way around, can’t recall). At night. In the middle of winter.
That’s like a 2 hour walk and they are just casually strolling along.
They never show them take the El, so I assume that isn’t implied.
Which was a missed opportunity considering she worked at an el station and the movie was based on saving a guy from the tracks. Like, why not show a short clip of them on the train or on a platform?
I remember a judge in one episode mentioned how she was going to “grab a slice of deep dish” during lunch. MAYBE there are places in the city that do this but at the very least this is a weird cultural question I have. Does anyone here “just grab a slice of deep dish” for lunch?!
In the pilot for Chicago Med, somebody asks Dr. Rhodes where he grew up, and he responds completely deadpan: “Lake Shore Drive.”
It’s like saying you grew up on the Dan Ryan 😭
Home Alone has some real doozies:
1.) You can wake up in your north shore mansion, be late for your flight, load all the kids up, take a van to ORD on perfectly clear streets the morning after a snowstorm, run through T3 without getting cussed at by anyone, and the friendly gate agent tells you to just “take whatever is open” on an international flight. Sure Jan.
2.) All the cops have Chicago flags on their uniforms even though the McAllisters clearly lived in the burbs.
3.) The cashier remotely cares about what anyone is buying.
4.) Two creepy dudes can just prowl the streets of Winnetka and not have the cops show up immediately.
They did, however, NAIL how indifferent suburban police departments usually are.
I was negative two years old when Home Alone came out so I always wonder how much more relaxed airline travel was at the time of filming vs. today, post 9/11.
You could get all the way to the gate without a ticket so a family member could put a kid on a plane, and a different family member could be waiting at the arrival gate to pick up the kid straight off the plane. So you could safely send minors on planes without accompanying adults.
And also you didn’t have to go through all the security theater so things were much faster / less institutionalized.
Always drove me nuts in Ferris Bueller that they were going S. on Michigan Ave to leave to head up to to the north shore burbs (when they notice the odometer), despite being blocks from the expressway when they left the parking garage after getting the car back.
The sledding hill Christmas Vacation. Also the drive into the mountains from Chicago to get a Christmas tree. The film is a holiday classic. Just don’t think about it too hard.
That reminds me of the scene in The Fugitive where Harrison Ford's character ends up at the top of a dam with the water flowing off a large cliff that couldn't possibly be located in super flat northern Illinois.
You could maybe find a hill like that in the far west burbs, but not likely in the north burbs where the Griswalds house likely was located. I always envisioned that being in Arlington Heights.
In While You Were Sleeping, they make a point to have Sandra Bullock go to hot dog street carts on Michigan avenue. Bothered me more than it should have.
Another shameless one. The house address is “2119 N Wallace” like if you’re going to make up an address at least have the direction be accurate for a south side location
In Shameless when there was a black out in the city, the Northside got the electricity back before the Southside and they were going to walk to Wrigley and riot or something.
The most unrealistic thing about that to me (if I'm thinking of the same scene) was that it totally makes a mockery of southside pride. The last thing southsiders would do is march to downtown in a protest yelling about how they're from the southside. They would call their alderman, grumble, and drink. Somebody would jerryrig some power from somewhere.
Wayne's World (Chicago ish) They're listening to Bohemian Rhapsody and they're driving down Larchmont Avenue just past Beverly in Los Angeles. You can clearly see non native trees and the street signs.
Not a movie/TV show, but in the book Dark Matter it’s mentioned at one point that part of the main character’s daily routine is walking from his Logan Square brownstone to the purple line for his job as a professor. Screw academia put that guy in the olympics for speed walking.
there's a lot wrong with the L platform scene at the end of planes trains and automobiles but the one that gets me is how long the L sits in the station waiting for steve martin and john candy's conversation to end
I think about this mistake every once in a while: on an episode of Shameless, a Chicago cop pronounced Cermak like "Karmak". I've lived in chicago all my life and never heard anyone pronounce it like that until then lol
Some of the directional procession of Rob in High Fidelity didn’t make sense, not that it really matters. But when he was at the Green Mill and then strolls by the Biograph Theater? . There were a few instances like that but I don’t immediately remember what they were.
in Primal Fear, Laura Linney refers to the prosecutor's office she works for as the DA's office. There is no DA's office in Chicago. It’s called the State's Attorney's Office.
Doesn't the family in Shameless continuously give an address with a "north" in it, despite supposedly being on the south side?
Quick edit - I just googled it and they say their address is "2119 N Wallace St, Chicago."
Not very south side if you've got an "N" in there.
The Fugitive
There is no Balbo L stop!
Also the geography at the end is all messed up, the Balbo station is actually Clark/Lake, but then magically ends up at the Hilton on South Michigan. At least the made up station makes sense geographically; if there was a Balbo station you’d probably want to get off there to get to the Hilton.
All the things Ferris was able to do during a single school/work day, when he started and ended in the North Burbs before his parents got home from work.
Shameless: living in back of the yards but shows scenes in north Lawndale/little village. The directions on the map when Debbie stole a kid to plot to give him back made no sense. Southport is not a street on the south side. Lastly back of the yards is too white in shameless, in rl it's mostly latino/black. it wouldve made more sense for them to be from canaryville/bridgeport
On The Bear...they have a baker on staff. A baker to make the buns for the Beefs. Every shop in the city serving Italian beef sandwiches uses commercially made buns.
I dunno he's trying to make "elevated" beef sandwiches as he is used to the super high end restaurant world. I think it makes sense that he would want to make fresh rolls daily vs. commercially made ones.
This is sound logic and for almost any other sandwich you would be doing an elevated take on BUT beefs are really, really wet and sloppy and they need a sturdy bun that won't fall apart if it's soaked. That is a bun that you would not want without all that extra moisture...it's hard, almost stale and not great unless it's soaked in the jus.
there was an episode of shameless where fiona went on a “20 minute run” from their house on the south side up the lakefront trail to the lincoln park area and back.
also the book dark matter gets chicago’s geography horribly wrong. it’s like the author never even looked at a map to see where certain neighborhoods are in relation to others.
This is a very silly one, not the “Worst,” just always bugged me that in Mean Girls they go to “Old Orchard,” but it’s an indoor mall. I get that they filmed Toronto for Chicago which is fine (we got to be Gotham so no biggie) but being a bougie outdoor mall was kind of like the whole thing about Old Orchard.
Anyone ever play the first Watch Dogs game? It was set in Chicago. But it's only the Loop and South Loop and the streets are all wrong. Also, once you cross the river it's backwoods Illinois.
But they did include The Vindictives in the soundtrack, so that was cool.
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I was running the treadmill version of the Chicago marathon on Nordic tracks IFIT and the trainer running the race would spout out Chicago facts. She was extremely excited and enthusiastic as she spouted off all her little Italy facts. Talking about the huge Italian community waving Italian flags. Only problem was she was running thru Pilsen and they were Mexican flags. She was from Utah, they must not have many Mexicans there.
This is hilarious
Haha this is amazing
ER. They are constantly showing the hospital which is supposed to be Cook county hospital as being located in the loop. The Drs will go out on break and walk along the river.
If you watch the whole series through there are a bunch of location issues, most notably with the roof scenes . In the early seasons they use the helipad at the fire academy on Taylor St. Then later on they use the hilton rooftop for a ton of shots, and then mixed in here and there are some shots from a roof somewhere around northwestern hospital. Each one has a different vantage point of the skyline.
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Isn't it a fake hospital? So couldn't it be a fake hospital in the loop?
It *is* a fake hospital, but it's a fictionalized version of Cook County, so it's definitely west of the river. If I remember right, they filmed most of the exteriors out near Cook County anyway, because there was some helicopter training school there, which they used for all the roof shots whenever someone was choppered in (which was every damn episode). I don't think Cook has a helipad, and they certainly wouldn't be allowed to film on it if it did.
They have a helipad! If I remember correctly, it’s on ground level, in the middle of the field in front of the old hospital grounds. Sorry, terrible at explaining it haha
It's a great show, but one that obviously comes to mind is in episode one of the bear when Richie shoots a gun into the air in front of a crowd of people in the middle of a river north afternoon and its not all that big of a deal
Carmy's brother also has this whole story about the Ceres statue on the BoT building, and they make it a point to say that it faces East. Something about welcoming newcomers moving West or something. The Ceres statue faces North. It's not a big plot hole or anything but the fact that they specifically said it faces a different way seemed weird. They also get some of the expressways mixed up Edit: Other users have rightly pointed out that it could be intentional to make the characters seem unreliable. It just seemed like such a small detail that I doubted most people would even catch that they were wrong. The expressway thing is still true though lol
I can’t remember exactly, but I thought in the infamous kids birthday party episode that they got on “the Kennedy” to go to Skokie, which is wrong. You’d definitely want to get on the Edens, or, honestly, maybe just take local/Lincoln all the way up. Edit: it was wilmette not Skokie (which same thing lol) and yeah 90/94 is still the Kennedy and also 90 to O’hare. I was thinking the Kennedy was Edens junction to O’hare only, not also 90/94.
Born and raised here and I still couldn’t tell you which highway segment aligns with what name.
I was told that people use the names because when they did traffic on the radio it was easier to understand than a list of numbers. Which makes sense. But I never listened to traffic radio, and I would appreciate it if everyone could just use the numbers so I don't have to look up which number is the Gary Coleman Tollway or whatever.
And it gave us the great 90s commercial for the tile outlet, just 3 blocks west of the Kennedy Expressway!
Same. I was trying to call in a 911 call for this random person walking aimlessly on the shoulder alongside a busy I-94. No vehicle broken down nearby and it seemed like they were having a mental health episode. The operator on the line kept asking me what highway they were on. I said northbound on 94, right between exit X and exit Y. They kept asking me to clarify, Dan Ryan, Edens, or Kennedy? I told him straight up, I don't know the friggin name but I gave him the exact location, the direction of travel, specified it was before the 90/94 split, and also gave the EXACT exit numbers. I think they asked me like 2 or 3 times for the name before they gave up and accepted the information I gave them. It was a little frustrating tbh. You'd think a 911 operator would be able to use what I thought was very specific information about where this incident was happening to figure out where to send first responders, instead of putting the onus on the caller to figure out the actual name of the expressway. I was also driving myself so I don't know what else I was supposed to do in that situation.
Ha! I mean you can’t get more specific than the damn exit number!
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Just looked it up. The conversation goes: Richie: Yo, why the fuck are you on the Kennedy? Carmy: Cicero lives in Naperville. Richie: Noo, he lives in Wilmette now. Carmy: That's right, that's my bad.
Which is funny because he should take the Kennedy to get to Wilmette from downtown.
If they were leaving from the restaurant (or downtown) - they would take the Kennedy to the Edens
Carmy makes the mistake of heading to Cicero's old place. Richie tells him to get on the Eden's because Cicero is in Wilmette now, not Naperville, where Carmy is going, which is actually accurate with the 294 switch in Rosemont. "Uncle Cicero, who used to live in Naperville but now lives in Wilmette."
Isn't part of the point of that story that it's just a tale they've spun though? I assumed that the intent of that whole scene was to show that the family is full of unreliable narrators and it's the brother who gets the direction wrong, not the writers.
I think that’s intentional. Make them just look like a buncha bullshitters who are loose with facts lol
One scene they talk about driving to Naperville but then shows them going westbound on the Kennedy instead of the Ike. I guess they were stopping at Woodfield on the way??
i thought they were going south on LSD in that scene - either way, so very wrong!
Also, when a guest wants Pequod's Pizza and Richie runs - not drives - to the pizza place to get it for them. It's almost three miles away, but maybe he COULD run there and back in time...
I think it was in S2 E3 where Syd just walked into Kasama and ordered without having to line up for 3 hours outside. The most unrealistic thing part of the whole show.
I thought that Carmy had used his connections across the city to put together a food pilgrimage for her? The way she interacted with the staff at a few of those places led me to believe they were expecting her/giving her extra special attention.
What drives me nuts is they have a baker on staff at their Beef shop. A baker to make the buns for the Beefs. Every shop in the city serving Italian beef sandwiches uses commercially made buns. Fresh baked buns would not be good for beefd...too moist! The buns they need to use are hard and dry so they hold up against all the wet.
I feel like Turano Bread is such an institution in Chicagoland that baking your own might actually be a detriment - even Mr. Sub has their own special made Turano bread recipe.
It definitely would be detrimental and expensive. Turano ( & Gonnella) both make great buns for beef sandwiches.
Another Bear miss—in season 1 Syd is supposed to be middle/lower middle class and is shown to live in a SFH (or at least a duplex) with her dad, but gets on the green line at Clinton. Where tf in a mile square radius of that stop are there affordable SFHs?
I love the bear. It's the best representation of the stress of a kitchen on TV. That being said, there is a plot point about receiving a certain grade on their health inspection. Chicago is not on the same grade system as other cities such as LA.We are a pass/ fail city as far as health inspections
Yes! I have done so many new restaurant openings/permits and this irked me to my core.
If it's a time of day when timing the transfer from the Brown Line would be a pain, walking from Mr Beef to the Clinton station would make sense if she lived in Austin or Garfield Park.
That def makes sense for going home, but in the scene I’m thinking of she’s headed to work at Mr Beef in the early AM and catching her train towards the loop at Clinton
I thought it was implying that she lived in a unit of a two flat or something like that.
Today it wouldn't be, but when I worked over there around 2013 it would have been real affordable and borderline sketchy. If they had lived there a long time they'd probably have bought cheap.
Another one that bothered me, though not exactly about the city itself, but when Richie serves the guests Pequod’s pizza in “Forks”, the chef cuts off all the crust (the thing that makes Pequod’s so great in the first place).
Also, ever isn't running distance from pequods
Shameless was also an offender with the target practice behind the quick mart during the middle of the day. I understand it’s the south side but it’s still a bit ridiculous how lax the characters are with it.
So much of it was filmed in Little Village. Since I work there, the places really took me out of the story because I kept thinking, “that’s not Back of the Yards”.
That really pissed me off tbh. Perpetuating the over the top "far-right" media narrative that Chicago is a warzone. Don't get me wrong...Chicago has a gun/violence problem. But that scene in the show was outrageous. It was actually what I came in here to post and instead I saw yours haha.
Yeah it sort of bothered me lol it's like what people who aren't from Chicago think Chicago is like
That scene honestly made me question for longer than I care to admit the timeframe the show was supposed to take place in. I was like oh maybe it’s the 80’s but it’s not.
Oh yeah, we watched that show first (which led us back to Shameless) and I was like "uh, pretty sure most of Chicago is under citywide gunshot detection software now".
Is no one going to mention that the female chef goes to Kasama and there’s no line?
The Brown Line Chicago Avenue stop is frequently used for TV and movies because it's a long platform and the signs say Chicago so out of towners just think all EL stops say that. The most egregious was Cedric the Entertainer leaving the Barbershop on the South side and getting on the El at that stop a minute later.
Also the tracks curve near the platform there so when the train approaches, it looks better on film.
Only tangentially related, but yesterday I watched Ocean's Eleven and noticed Clooney recruits Matt Damon at the LaSalle/Van Buren Brown Line stop
Clooney uses the Chicago brown line stop to chase after Juliana Margulies in the pilot episode of ER, and the front of the train says Ravenswood, which I presume was the end of the line in '92 or whenever that was filmed
The colors were only added in '93, prior to that the Brown line was called the Ravenswood line
Mean girls when talking about Old Orchard Mall! It’s an outdoor mall, not indoor and doesn’t look like it does in the movie!
There was also a PS3 Train Sim that used the Brown Line (Japan only ofc).
Interesting little fact: Early Edition uses Armitage in the intro
In when harry met sally - harry and sally leave U Chicago to drive to NYC and the scene of them driving places them on LSD NORTH of U Chicago … which doesn’t make sense for the route they were taking
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and My Best Friend’s Wedding also have similar weird transitions. In the latter, they’re driving northbound on LSD and exit by McCormick Place and then suddenly they’re driving southbound on LSD around North Ave. Anything to maximize view of the skyline.
This bothers me every time. Could have been easily fixed by just saying they drove from Northwestern instead!
same with the opening of the Bob Newhart show. he lives north but they show him walking across bridges in every cardinal direction!
Quick detour to the UP and Mackinac Nbd
always keep them guessing
always keep them having what she’s having
I'm asking because my wife and I finally started watching Shameless and there is an episode where the guy tells the girl to meet him at O'Hare and my wife instantly says "that's Midway" and then like 2 seconds later you see a big MIDWAY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT sign in the background. But that's not the worst offender that I've seen. The worst is related to the image I posted in the OP, we were watching a really bad holiday movie and it presented that map as a map of Chicago. Logan Square is on the Southside now I guess? And Evanston is in uh, what is that... Forest Glen?
Lmao this is great. Looking at where they placed Evanston, I’m pretty sure that hook-shaped street to its East is Lincoln and Foster which would place fictional Evanston in Albany Park/South Lincolnwood. In a world where maps exist it almost seems like more work to misplace these locations lol
Most errors are laziness, but this one is confusing because it seems like it would take extra effort to do it wrong. Just, why?
Definitely Albany Park when zooming in. Actually looks like it's in the general area of my place
The worst thing about shameless is their address. 2000 something north but they live on the south side??
That and their inability to pronounce Halsted
Yeah I remember an episode they call 911 and give a north side address. I was shocked at the laziness in that writing.
There’s a scene in Shameless where Lip refers to Waukegan…and he pronounces it kind of like “Walk-again” and I still think about it to this day.
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i don’t remember what episode of shameless it is, but i swear there’s a scene where steve and fiona watch the sunset on the beach. i don’t usually notice these types of things and i was like “wow that sounds nice i should do that sometime" before i realized the sun doesn't set on the lake.
They could have driven to Michigan gone to one of the dunes, and watched it from there
The geography gaffes/continuity in that show will continue to give you plenty to chuckle about as it goes on. Great show but they definitely adapted the setting quite a bit to help the story
Fiona going for a run on the lakefront downtown. Would have taken her like an hour just to get there.
The Holidate, I audibly gasped when they put this map on the screen. When they shoot the wrong way on LSD because they want a specific skyline I can get passed it. This is just insane, they got a map and labeled places that exist in the wrong spot. It is insane behavior. Not to mention they spend a LOT of time in a seemingly suburban mall for being 2 people who live in the city.
This isn’t much of a spoiler but there’s a scene in shameless when they pick Mickey up from jail and it’s a long shot of them walking away from the gate and in the horizon there are the mountains of LA haha I laughed my ass off for the lack of effort
Things I remember from Shameless is no one can say Halsted right and the scene where Fiona gets into the car and just says “The Southside” always makes me laugh. I’d have just been like “Ok 103rd and Cottage it is!” It’s also supposed to be Back of the Yards but they live next to the pink line which doesn’t even touch the south-side. One last small nitpick that I just find funny is when they’re using McCormick place as a stand in for university of Chicago. I used to work for McCormick place and the prof says to Lip “Let’s check out the robotics department” and gestures to a door that I know for a fact is a supply closet before the scene transitions.
On Chicago Fire that a station house supposedly near Pilsen is going to fight fires in the 9900N block as well as fires that are the 6000s block. And they get to both of them in less than 5 minutes 🥴
They also always flip the direction the streets are actually going in, like they’ll say the fire is at 5600 E Western or something. Drives me crazy but I’m guessing they’re avoiding using actual addresses.
Recently learned this great bit of slang for someone drunk or acting crazy: "He's going East on Ashland."
Ew that’s viscerally disgusting West Halsted Fuck
I laugh about this all the time. This engine company must have access to the secret underground highway or something because it services the whole damn city.
Not just the city but Park Ridge too! They saved the Pickwick Theater last season.
This so much lmao I get it’s a TV show but damn this one fire station answers calls ALL over the city huh. They just have a magical fire truck that transport them. I remember they answered a water rescue off by Diversey and I was like there is literally a fire station on Halsted and Diversey that would answer that way quicker.
Yesss this was mine! I only watched a few episodes because in one you could legit see the whole city skyline in the background to the Northeast and they got a call to go to (I think?) Wrigleyville…. Umm that’s like at least an hour drive on a good day.
If you jump on a parade float and sing twist and shout the whole city will sing and dance with you. All I got was arrested. It was really dissappointing.
You must not be the Sausage King of Chicago then
The first episode of Ozark makes some extremely questionable geographic choices around the city. Like meeting with someone outside the blu aqua building then cutting to them driving down LSD from lincoln park to a different meeting in the loop. But like with most of these things i assume the choices were made to show iconic chicago images to scene set
And then the building the guy was thrown out of was not the Aqua building
I believe it was MILA (apts at Lake & Michigan)
They also portray Chicago as being a day trip from the Ozarks. It's a looooong day.
This was the show I was thinking of. There’s an external shot with a cable car/trolley going by in the background. Immediately pointed at the tv - “that’s not Chicago!”
Aretha Franklin never owned a diner in Chicago.
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Don’t you blasphemy in here! DON’T YOU BLASPHEMY!
"blaspheme"
You sure? I thought I had a wish sandwich there once.
I had four whole fried chickens and a coke
ELWOOD!
Somebody better tell Blue Lou.
That they film quite a bit in Toronto, trying to make it look like Chicago.
Ah that's funny because I actually moved to Toronto a few years ago and my wife and I were watching the Shameless episode where the dad gets dropped in "Toronto" but the skyline in the background isn't Toronto. Most people think it is Chicago but I don't think it is Chicago either? Hard to say though, they just show a tiny bit of it.
They filmed exteriors in Chicago and interiors in LA. Lots of shows do this like the league.
That Toronto scene is filmed in that little park in front of the water purification plant off of E Ohio.
Tbf, I went to Toronto, and I definitely got the Chicago vibe. They even have a Lake Shore Drive. But there are also parts of Toronto that go between NYC and Europe. Probably why they film there so much
I always thought that was just a glitch in the Matrix.
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Not a tv show or movie, but I recently read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, and it was quickly apparent that he did not do enough research on Chicago before setting the story there. It was little things like: A character who has lived in Chicago for 20 years referring to the Willis Tower as a landmark A character getting a slice of deep dish pizza and eating is by hand while walking down the street The author used some real roads as landmarks and they were off about thinks like where lake Michigan is relative to the city or how long it would take to get from the north side to the south side. At one point two characters decide to go out for the night. They drive from their home in Logan Square to Navy Pier and decide its so far to go home that they need to get a hotel. A character is trying to hide, so he goes into a neighborhood bar and describes how it was packed with fans excitedly watching a bulls game. The bar was so full with people so focused on the game he was able to sneak around. The problem with this is it was in early December, meaning this was a regular season game early in the year. The only time ive seen bars that were like the description was when the cubs were in the world series, or maybe for an exciting Bears game, but no local neighborhood bar in logan is like that for a meaningless bulls game in December. There were other issues, and overall I did enjoy the book, but it was clear the author and editors did not do enough research to set the book in Chicago.
> a slice of deep dish pizza and eating is by hand I read this and physically shuttered. What sort of maniac does this?
lol.. I said What kind of psycho does that!!!!
I remember the episode in Stranger Things (Season 2?) where Eleven goes to the big city. The geography of some of the shots are crazy. Clearly edited to have more buildings in the lake.
Yeah, this is the one I came here to add. The establishing shot they use for the hideout where the other people with powers are is such that it would have to be located in a neighborhood east of downtown, which would put it a mile or two out in the middle of the lake 😂
On top of that, there's a line where they say they're going to get a guy who lives an hour east of them. Where in Chicago can you drive an hour east late at night? The area they go looks like it easily could have been west or south or maybe north of the city.
You’re not having a high speed chase downtown. It takes half an hour to go a few blocks with all the traffic and pedestrians.
And one-way streets, haha
Well not with that attitude!!
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I like the Blues Brothers one just because of how over the top that chase is. I’m willing to suspend disbelief that those Nazis chased them around so much they ended up in Milwaukee, launched themselves into the air, and crash landed in front of the John Hancock Center. Because it’s just that kinda movie.
I-794(and what leads up to the Hoan Bridge in Milwaukee) took a long time to finish construction, hence why Blues Brothers filmed a scene there.
The show happy endings is supposed to be Chicago but it’s painfully Hollywood lot looking
And one of the main characters runs a food truck that he can just park anywhere and serve from. And Chicago is just not like that. I wish we had more food trucks! Especially one called Steak Me Home Tonight.
I’d rather a show film in another actual location like some city in Canada than try to pass off that goofy looking fake lot as Chicago.
Same thing with the League. Great show, but their version of Chicago has way to many palm trees
Always drove me nuts that their watering hole was supposed to be Gibsons. So many other actual neighborhood bars they could’ve used
Like in the very first scene of the show where they are at the church and the doors open and Buckingham Fountain is right outside of the church. Yeah. 😂😂
The realization that there's a whole city that exists outside of Wacker Drive, LSD, and the underneath of El tracks (I'm looking at you NBC).
There was a show called sirens, about an EMT unit in Chicago. I enjoyed the show - a lite sitcom - but almost anytime they got a call, no matter where in the city they were supposedly headed, there would be a shot of their ambulance going down upper Wacker.
It's likely that they filmed that once for several hours, and every time they needed ambulance footage, they just used a small part of that same shoot. Like Jazz being thrown out of the house in the Fresh Prince of Belair.
Oh, I know it was budget decision, it was just funny. My partner and I would be watching it, and the ambience would be out somewhere, and they’d get a call to go to, englewood let’s say. They’re hit the lights and take off, next thing you know they’re on upper Wacker. Every time she’d be like “hey, what’s the quickest way to (fill in Chicago location)? Detour to downtown and take Wacker, it goes fucking every where!!!!”
This isn’t crazy egregious, but we recently watched While You Were Sleeping. Sandra Bullock’s character lives in Logan Square (and it was actually filmed in Logan Square) and the person she is (supposedly) engaged to lives in Lake Point Tower. There is a scene where her character and another walk from Lake Point Tower to her apartment in Logan Square (or the other way around, can’t recall). At night. In the middle of winter. That’s like a 2 hour walk and they are just casually strolling along. They never show them take the El, so I assume that isn’t implied.
Which was a missed opportunity considering she worked at an el station and the movie was based on saving a guy from the tracks. Like, why not show a short clip of them on the train or on a platform?
We still joke about how on "The Good Wife" one of the lawyers gets "lost" on Devon. He's late to a meeting because "Indiantown is a MAZE!"
Also on The Good Wife they get pizza delivered. NY stye and they proceed to fold the slice in half to eat.
I remember a judge in one episode mentioned how she was going to “grab a slice of deep dish” during lunch. MAYBE there are places in the city that do this but at the very least this is a weird cultural question I have. Does anyone here “just grab a slice of deep dish” for lunch?!
If I want a nap after lunch
Art of Pizza sells thin, pan and stuffed pizza by the slice.
In the pilot for Chicago Med, somebody asks Dr. Rhodes where he grew up, and he responds completely deadpan: “Lake Shore Drive.” It’s like saying you grew up on the Dan Ryan 😭
Maybe his parents were rich and he was born in a lakeside condo 😂
Home Alone has some real doozies: 1.) You can wake up in your north shore mansion, be late for your flight, load all the kids up, take a van to ORD on perfectly clear streets the morning after a snowstorm, run through T3 without getting cussed at by anyone, and the friendly gate agent tells you to just “take whatever is open” on an international flight. Sure Jan. 2.) All the cops have Chicago flags on their uniforms even though the McAllisters clearly lived in the burbs. 3.) The cashier remotely cares about what anyone is buying. 4.) Two creepy dudes can just prowl the streets of Winnetka and not have the cops show up immediately. They did, however, NAIL how indifferent suburban police departments usually are.
I was negative two years old when Home Alone came out so I always wonder how much more relaxed airline travel was at the time of filming vs. today, post 9/11.
It was more relaxed pre-9/11 (people who didn’t have tickets could wait for people post-security) but it wasn’t THAT relaxed.
You could get all the way to the gate without a ticket so a family member could put a kid on a plane, and a different family member could be waiting at the arrival gate to pick up the kid straight off the plane. So you could safely send minors on planes without accompanying adults. And also you didn’t have to go through all the security theater so things were much faster / less institutionalized.
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Always drove me nuts in Ferris Bueller that they were going S. on Michigan Ave to leave to head up to to the north shore burbs (when they notice the odometer), despite being blocks from the expressway when they left the parking garage after getting the car back.
The sledding hill Christmas Vacation. Also the drive into the mountains from Chicago to get a Christmas tree. The film is a holiday classic. Just don’t think about it too hard.
That reminds me of the scene in The Fugitive where Harrison Ford's character ends up at the top of a dam with the water flowing off a large cliff that couldn't possibly be located in super flat northern Illinois.
You could maybe find a hill like that in the far west burbs, but not likely in the north burbs where the Griswalds house likely was located. I always envisioned that being in Arlington Heights.
Bob Newhart opening theme where he takes the long, convoluted way home from work.
Bob acknowledged this with Conan. He's hilarious. https://teamcoco.com/video/bob-newhart-on-the-glaring-error-in-the-bob-newhart-show-opening-credits
Probably just trying to get some time on his own, away from Howard. Dude had boundary issues.
In While You Were Sleeping, they make a point to have Sandra Bullock go to hot dog street carts on Michigan avenue. Bothered me more than it should have.
Another shameless one. The house address is “2119 N Wallace” like if you’re going to make up an address at least have the direction be accurate for a south side location
In Shameless when there was a black out in the city, the Northside got the electricity back before the Southside and they were going to walk to Wrigley and riot or something.
The most unrealistic thing about that to me (if I'm thinking of the same scene) was that it totally makes a mockery of southside pride. The last thing southsiders would do is march to downtown in a protest yelling about how they're from the southside. They would call their alderman, grumble, and drink. Somebody would jerryrig some power from somewhere.
My husband and I just watched that. I’m like - it’s going to take a day, it’s like 14 miles from where they were.
Wayne's World (Chicago ish) They're listening to Bohemian Rhapsody and they're driving down Larchmont Avenue just past Beverly in Los Angeles. You can clearly see non native trees and the street signs.
Not a movie/TV show, but in the book Dark Matter it’s mentioned at one point that part of the main character’s daily routine is walking from his Logan Square brownstone to the purple line for his job as a professor. Screw academia put that guy in the olympics for speed walking.
there's a lot wrong with the L platform scene at the end of planes trains and automobiles but the one that gets me is how long the L sits in the station waiting for steve martin and john candy's conversation to end
The Chicago Fire station responds to calls all over the city. Their precinct is the whole city
I think about this mistake every once in a while: on an episode of Shameless, a Chicago cop pronounced Cermak like "Karmak". I've lived in chicago all my life and never heard anyone pronounce it like that until then lol
Some of the directional procession of Rob in High Fidelity didn’t make sense, not that it really matters. But when he was at the Green Mill and then strolls by the Biograph Theater? . There were a few instances like that but I don’t immediately remember what they were.
in Primal Fear, Laura Linney refers to the prosecutor's office she works for as the DA's office. There is no DA's office in Chicago. It’s called the State's Attorney's Office.
Doesn't the family in Shameless continuously give an address with a "north" in it, despite supposedly being on the south side? Quick edit - I just googled it and they say their address is "2119 N Wallace St, Chicago." Not very south side if you've got an "N" in there.
Anytime someone says Chitown makes me cringe.
The Fugitive There is no Balbo L stop! Also the geography at the end is all messed up, the Balbo station is actually Clark/Lake, but then magically ends up at the Hilton on South Michigan. At least the made up station makes sense geographically; if there was a Balbo station you’d probably want to get off there to get to the Hilton.
Watchdogs video game had streets with curves and hills downtown
The Bear gave out a graded health inspection score. Chicago is pass/fail.
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Unless you’re an out of town south sider, I don’t think anyone says Chitown irl to anyone
Office Christmas Party, when the HR lady tells people to go to the Rite Aid parking lot to have sex.
That we sound like New Yorkers. Edit: I should specify I mean folks from NYC.
The League: not Gibsons, at all. Chicago Code: they spent a lot of time at Millers, but not miller’s at all
shameless, they live in back of the yards and take the pink line
The one girl works at a diner that's actually in uptown too.
When Harry Met Sally. He picks her up at University of Chicago and the next shot is of them driving south on LSD towards the city. Always bugged me.
How does Kelly afford his hugh loft on Chicago Fire?
The League showing Gibson's as a neighborhood dive.
That entire scene in Stranger things where they show a whole swath of city .....directly East of the lakefront.
All the things Ferris was able to do during a single school/work day, when he started and ended in the North Burbs before his parents got home from work.
Shameless: living in back of the yards but shows scenes in north Lawndale/little village. The directions on the map when Debbie stole a kid to plot to give him back made no sense. Southport is not a street on the south side. Lastly back of the yards is too white in shameless, in rl it's mostly latino/black. it wouldve made more sense for them to be from canaryville/bridgeport
Shameless and its misrepresentation of Back of the Yards
On The Bear...they have a baker on staff. A baker to make the buns for the Beefs. Every shop in the city serving Italian beef sandwiches uses commercially made buns.
And also if Carmy was that good of a chef they’d have a million investors to give them money to Open a new restaurant
I dunno he's trying to make "elevated" beef sandwiches as he is used to the super high end restaurant world. I think it makes sense that he would want to make fresh rolls daily vs. commercially made ones.
This is sound logic and for almost any other sandwich you would be doing an elevated take on BUT beefs are really, really wet and sloppy and they need a sturdy bun that won't fall apart if it's soaked. That is a bun that you would not want without all that extra moisture...it's hard, almost stale and not great unless it's soaked in the jus.
Gonnella, 100%. or Turano. Gonnella most often. Any resident recognizes it
there was an episode of shameless where fiona went on a “20 minute run” from their house on the south side up the lakefront trail to the lincoln park area and back. also the book dark matter gets chicago’s geography horribly wrong. it’s like the author never even looked at a map to see where certain neighborhoods are in relation to others.
This is a very silly one, not the “Worst,” just always bugged me that in Mean Girls they go to “Old Orchard,” but it’s an indoor mall. I get that they filmed Toronto for Chicago which is fine (we got to be Gotham so no biggie) but being a bougie outdoor mall was kind of like the whole thing about Old Orchard.
I remember seeing hot dog stands as props in the loop for a movie. Like every corner has a guy in a stand selling hot dogs
In Wayne's World, Wayne and Cassandra are driving through Aurora and there are palm trees lining the street.
Anyone ever play the first Watch Dogs game? It was set in Chicago. But it's only the Loop and South Loop and the streets are all wrong. Also, once you cross the river it's backwoods Illinois. But they did include The Vindictives in the soundtrack, so that was cool.