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The Streeterville area around Ohio/Grand/Illinois and Lakeshore Drive to McClurg was just shut down aroud 10:00 PM from all traffic including pedestrians for about half an hour while several helicopters came for a stunt scene being shot there. What movie could it be? The obvious guess is, the Dark Knight, the new Batman movie being […]
Some of the videos featured at the Seventh Annual Bicycle Film Festival 2007 which took place in Chicago the past few days and also in NYC, LA, Paris, Toronto, Portland, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Vienna, London, Milano, Roma, Barcelona, Sydney, Melbourne, and Tokyo.
The Youtube videos are messing with the flow of the page so click more […]
The Dark Knight redux
A curious crowd has gathered in Chicago’s Old Town, where a film crew has spent a good portion of the night setting up shop.
Word has traveled through the neighborhood that the latest in the “Batman” series, “The Dark Knight,” starring Christian Bale as the Caped Crusader, is shooting scenes. People, many […]
What’s the USA’s most-visited city?
When you consider only hotel rooms sold, Vegas’ 40 million hits the jackpot, followed by the Orlando area (27.2 million), L.A. (25.5 million), Chicago (24.8 million) and New York City (23.9 million).
[via USA Today]
Teenage Boy Shot On South Side
A 15-year-old boy was wounded Monday night in a South Side shooting […]
Is Baghdad Safer Than Chicago?
This past Sunday, Barack Obama gave a speech at the Vernon Park Church of God in Chicago in which he noted that the number of city schoolchildren killed in the last school year was higher than the number of soldiers from all of Illinois killed in Iraq over the same period. […]