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A good Chicago movie

posted 18 years ago by LCShackley
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Chicago should be listed as one of the stars of this film, since so much depends on the North-side neighborhood feel.

I moved away from there 12 years ago but just saw the movie today. I was trying to figure out the location of the main neighborhood. It had to be at one of the rare neighborhoods where there's a fork in a "L" line (you can see two trestles in the background at John Candy's house several times).

My dad worked for the CTA for years and one of the control towers used to be on Clark St. where the Ravenswood line branches off to the west. Thanks to Google maps, I found the spot: near the corner of Clark and Roscoe (you can see a Roscoe St. sign briefly in the film). If you zoom in on the hybrid Google map, you can easily see the corner near where the house was located.

Also, this a rare memento of the old Comiskey Park. There's a nice scene shot inside the empty park, with the fireworks going off. In the establishing shot, you can see the new park being built (on the right side of the screen). Not long after, Comiskey would be a pile of rubble.

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[–] nittany4 18 years ago

so they are north siders

shouldn't they be cubs fans instead of sox fans?

[–] OKCRay 18 years ago

Ummmmm, no.

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[–] JFoley-9 18 years ago

My friend went to school with a girl who's parents own that building on Roscoe.It has been in a dozen films.A lot of Irish are Sox fans for some reason. I grew up on the far northwest side of Chicago and have Cubbie blue running through my veins :)

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[–] hunterjlc 17 years ago

"A lot of Irish are Sox fans for some reason."

The reason is Comiskey Park now ,ugh Cellular Field is in a section of the city called Bridgeport. It's where a great many Irish have lived for generations. Even before the park. The first Mayor Daley lived too. He also was a Sox fan.

[–] jefgg 9 years ago

I have never heard that many Irish-American Chicagoans prefer the White Sox over the Cubs. I have only visited Chicago, but have lived my whole life in the New York area. Many Italian-Americans have rooted for the New York Yankees. I think it goes back to before Joe DiMaggio when the Yanks had Italian-American stars like Frankie Crosetti and Tony Lazzeri. One of my favorites, Yogi Berra, passed away just last month. His close friend and teammate Phil Rizzuto did play by play for the Yankees on radio and TV when I was growing up. Berra and Rizzuto co-owned our local bowling alley.

[–] Irishdrummer007 17 years ago

I,m from the South side and I am a Cubs fan, But of Course I am for the Cubs and Sox teams. As long as it,s Chicago, It,s all good.

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[–] jaystarstar 11 years ago

The White Sox were always identified as Chicago's "Irish" team.

The South Side neighborhood where Comiskey Park was built was very heavily Irish in the early years of the century.

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