One summer evening, back in the ‘80s, I filed into a Chicago theater and beheld my city on the big screen, pretty much for the first time. I saw "The Blues Brothers," the crazy car-crash comedy ...

And that, more or less, is how Chicago became a regular location for movie production. 'Love letter to the city' In June 1980, 30 years ago, "The Blues Brothers" premiered. Keeping with Belushi's ...

A quarter-century ago, “The Blues Brothers” embraced Chicago as no other film has, before or since. The movie tapped directly into the heart of the city, harnessing its energy and will to get ...

But because without “The Blues Brothers” — “which we conceived as a love letter to the city,” Landis said — Chicago might not have had much of a film industry. Or rather, it might have ...

1. The Blues Brothers began as a friendship. Belushi, a star of Second City Chicago, was visiting Canada, where Aykroyd was in Second City Toronto. Belushi sat in with the troupe, and one night at ...

[Tribune] Book explores how Mayor Richard M. Daley turned Chicago into the “city of spectacle” A new book, Building the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago ...

Donation Options Search Search Search A car goes flying from Marina City into ... dozens of Chicago Police squads (and eventually some pathetic Illinois Nazis) chased the Blues Brothers down ...

A new plan for the industrial Southeast Side A new plan for the industrial Southeast Side City of Chicago planners ... bridge in the 1980 movie “The Blues Brothers,” the steel industry in ...

Not only does the Bluesmobile get the Blues brothers where they need to go, but it also manages to outrun every roller in ...