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I wanted to visit a few of the filming locations for blues brothers when we were in chicago. My wife didn't see the awesomeness that it could have been....


Parakeet
The Chez Paul closed 10 years ago, unfortunately. And I'll bet the soup was more than <bleep> ten dollars.
 
When i lived in blue island i passed up the mall (that was half way torn down for a very long time) every day on my way to and from work.

and i can damn near throw a stone to calumet city from my house now.
 
When i lived in blue island i passed up the mall (that was half way torn down for a very long time) every day on my way to and from work.

and i can damn near throw a stone to calumet city from my house now.
"This don't look like no freeway to me!"
 
Dixie Square Mall is still standing for the most part. The mall was actually already closed for real life when they filmed the original movie. The producers spiffed up the parts they were filming in. I have a friend who goes urban exploring in there all the time.

Here is a flickr result page of what it looks like.
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=dixie+square+mall&f=hp

BTW, the mall never did have a Toys R Us or Jewel store in the mall originally. Those two were placed in the movie after the two original stores refused to let the movie producers use the store fronts.
 
I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but my good buddy was an extra in the ballroom scene, he talked to Belushi several times during the filming.
 
Elwood: Baby clothes...

Jake:This place has got everything.
 
There is a quote thread lol

mac 'this thread is more active than it's been in weeks' gyvr
 
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mac 'only way i can stand the mall' gyvr
 
going home in 5 minutes.

rough day, clocked in at 10am, went to my Dr appt, met the twins for lunch, surfed the net for the last 4 hours.


fore 'light duty is real light today' wheeler
 
I finally finished putting the BW cuttoffs on!

While I had the rear wheel off, I decided to upgrade the bump stops...
Had to remove the shocks @ the lower mount...

I'm getting mighty tired of broken bolts...
 
Colts will win something tonight it seems. They will win the suckforluck race with a loss.
 
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