when life hands you a day in Chicago with nothing to do, and a super ill Rabbi with a car (and a lot of salami) offering to take you and yer lovely wife anywhere, you go movie location sightseeing, right????

I mean, Chicago and its burbs are home to many a John Hughes movies, and if you don’t want to revisit the places where John Hughes movies were shot, you probably should be shot, right???

well, this is the John Hughes driving tour I quickly cobbled together (which MUCH help from this site)…

–

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Cameron’s House

370 Beech St Highland Park, Illinois 60035

–

Ferris’ High School

Glenbrook North High School – 2300 Shermer Road, Northbrook, Illinois 60062

–

The ‘Save Ferris’ Water Tower

behind the Cedarbrook Public Library - 1201 Cedar Lane, Northbrook, Illinois 60062

–

The Breakfast Club

Shermer High School

formerly Maine North High - 9511 Harrison Street, Des Plaines, Illinois 60016

–

Uncle Buck

Buck Russell’s Brother’s House

2602 Lincoln Street, Evanston, Illinois 60201

–

Home Alone

The McCallister Home

671 Lincoln Avenue, Winnetka, Illinois 60093

–

and while the following was not a John Hughes movie, it was around the corner from Cameron’s house!!!

Risky Business

Joel Goodson’s House

1258 Linden Ave, Highland Park, Illinois 60035

–

crap, in the process of recapping, forgot to visit the Sixteen Candles locations

–

some more Hughes location pics were also taken from here

Weeghman Park / Cubs Park / Wrigley Field opened on April 23, 1914

there’s Chicago pizza

and then there’s everything else that calls itself pizza which is basically Lender’s bagels

don’t ask where’s the beef, cause you know that shiz was in our stomachs within 8 seconds

and then 10 seconds later, the solids turns into a gaseous state

if you don’t put ketchup on a hot dog, yer juss plain stoopid

we’ll leave it up to you as to how many pickles should go on a dog

this picture is not related to the food above

but is related to how amazing the Wrigley Field bathrooms are!

Wrigley, you know, the place where Balki & Cousin Larry get jiggy with it!

and the place where the Natsies owned the Cubsies

THIS IS WHAT THE SKY LOOKS LIKE IN WRIGLEY!!!

JESUS AND MOSES AND GOD BUILT THIS PLACE!!!

Curly Ws and Rounded Cs in perfect harmony

why can’t we all just get a shlong?

was so blessed to be with and to bring together this trio of fine peepholes

Señor Gombiergas, Joe E Tata & Peabsly P Peabody

this guy was not a part of our party

but he sure knows how to party (in his own mind)

even took time out of our busy eating & Curly W schedule to see things

like potential Quiet On The Sets posts like the Home Alone house!

f$&k The Hunger Lames cause this abandoned women’s hospital is more future bad cool than anything in that stoopid movie

dog bless you Bertrand Goldberg

and this is where Dillinger got plugged

plug in, or tune out, yo!

even got a lil Bahá’í on life

then listened to the Bahá’men

who let the dogs/drugs out?

um, uh, how come we’re juss now declaring

HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT

as our like 11th most flavorite site mt everestestestest???

Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago, 1949

Looking Into The Past & II

Abandoned Houses In Detroit

1950s Pin Up Girls Before & After

+ the earliest surviving colour videotape recording

we’ve been to Chicago many a times before (the last being 4 years ago for LollFoodcomapalooza), but never had ever, not even for 3 seconds, thought about taking a ride on Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Architecture River Cruise, which makes no sense considering that we get bigger boners for buildings than Ayn Rand does!!! well, turns out that we were missing out on one of the illest things to do out & about in the Windy City (mucho thanks-o to Joe E Tata for forcing us to do so)!!!!!!!!!!!!

And what does one get in return for 90 minutes of cruising (with optional boozing)???? Oh, juss some of the moist delightful sights ones eyes hath ever seen, and sounds too, but only if yer guide is Jim Bartholomew (his humor was as dry as we like our wine, and humor… VERY DRY!!!!)!!!!!!!

anywho, we’ve always been fascinated by them corncob buildings, but never ever never put in any effort to find out more about them or the man that made em possible.  well, thanks to the tour, we learned that that man is Bertrand Goldberg, and the dude left is imprint all over Chi-town, and various other spots the world round.  we were so taken with his works that he has already moved into our top 5 moist flavorite architects of balls thyme, alongside Gaudí, Saarinen, LeCourbiser and Friedensreich Hundertwasser!!!!

too bad he’s dead, otherwise we’d commission him to build us a fortress that looks like the 70s version of the future!!!