Thank You To Owen From The When Write Is Wrong Website For Figuring Out Where The High School Was Located
Thank You To Michael From The Filminglocs Website For Finding The Walenski Residence
Thank You To Michael From The Filminglocs Website For Finding The Walenski Residence
- (0:03) Mick O'Brien Stealing A Lady's Purse From Her Car After Breaking Her Car Window / North Rush Street And E. Delaware Place, Chicago (Note: She Is Driving West On Delaware And When He Takes The Purse He Runs North On Rush And Hides Out In An Alley. Most Everything Has Changed Since The Movie Was Made And Really Isn't Recognizable Now. The Alley Is No Longer There And Delaware Is Now A One Way Street So Now She Would Have Been Driving The Wrong Way On A One Way Street. My Pictures Show How Much The Area Has Changed)
- (0:08) Paco Moreno Talking With His Father About A Job While Standing On The Sidewalk / 1740 W. 18th Street, Chicago
- (0:10) The High School / William Cullen Bryant School; 1355 S. Kedvale Avenue, Chicago (Note: This Is Just An Educated Guess But If You Look Really Close You Can See "Bryant School" On The Building. Also, If True This Building Has Since Been Torn Down)
- (0:17) Paco's Family Residence / 1831 S. Racine Avenue, Chicago
- (0:18) Paco And His Cronies Walking By A Mural As The Car Slowly Follows Them / 1206 W. 18th Street, Chicago (Note: This Mural Is Now Pretty Faded And It Is On The Southwest Corner Of 18th Street And S. Racine Avenue)
- (0:20) The Shootout / 2875 W. Cermak Road, Chicago
- (0:21) Mick Runs Over Paco's Relative While Trying To Elude The Police / 2755 W. Cermak Road, Chicago (Note: He Was Traveling South On South California Avenue When He Turns And Runs Down Paco's Little Brother. Since The Movie Was Made The Spot Is Not As Wide As It Was In The Movie As You Can See By My Picture)
- (0:22) The Juvenile Prison / Illinois Youth Center St. Charles; 3825 Campton Hills Road, St. Charles, IL (Note: This Road Is Also Called Route 38. This Is A Mile West Of Peck Road And The Facility Is On The North Side Of The Road)
- (0:38) The Walgreens Where J.C. Walenski Works / Northeast Corner Of N. Broadway And W. Wilson Avenue, Chicago (Note: This Building Has Since Been Torn Down And Replaced With A Different Building)
- (0:38) J.C. And Her Father Walking Along The Lake / Lakefront Trail, Chicago (Note: This Is Roughly East Of Where North Blvd Ends)
- (0:41) The Car Wash Where The Revenge Drive-By Takes Place / Still Searching For This Location
- (0:52) J.C. Nervously Running To The El Station Because Of Paco's Presence / Wilson Station; 4620 N. Broadway, Chicago
- (1:01) J.C. Coming Out To The Street From The El Station / Sheridan Station; 3940 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago (Note: She Starts Out Walking South From The Station. In The 2nd Screen Shot The Building She Is Walking By Has Since Been Torn Down As It Stood On The Northwest Corner Of Broadway And Montrose)
- (1:02) Paco Sexually Assaulting J.C. Under The Elevated Train Tracks / 1050 W. Montrose Avenue, Chicago (Note: This Is Just A Guess As Too Much Has Changed In The Area To Be Sure)
- (1:16) The Walenski Residence / 936 N. Wolcott Avenue, Chicago
- (1:18) The Prison That O'Brien Is Shown While Trying To Scare Him Straight / Stateville Correctional Center; 16830 Broadway Street, Crest Hill
the high school is lakeview h.s. on irving park and ashland
ReplyDeleteHi thank you for the info but the building don't match. My friend and I believe the school has been torn down.
DeleteI think the outside of the building is William Cullen Bryant School 1355 S. Kedvale - I taught there in 1967-69 and it looks like that building. I'm not sure about the inside as I don't think there were lockers inside the school as it was an elementary school. The school was torn down several years ago.
DeleteI found a photo from 1969 of Bryant School and it is the same entrance as in the picture.
DeleteMy friend went to Kelly H.S. on the south-side and said that was his school. I'm not sure if this is fact, but maybe worth looking into.
DeleteThe name "Bryant" is clearly visible above the door & the windows perfectly match those of Bryant. If I could, I would post a picture of my wife standing in front of that dooir.
DeleteOn classmates . com they show a picture of the school as in the picture above as William Cullen Bryant School 1355 South Kedvale Avenue, Chicago, IL. Google streets shows an empty lot where the school was. I am in the picture above. I remember the school was in a very bad neighborhood. If we stayed after dark we had to be locked in the school overnight. The production company has security but they couldn't ensure safety leaving so they didn't allow it. wish I would have stayed maybe I'd be making movies now.
DeleteI can confirm that that is in fact William Cullen Bryant Elementary from the 1960's. It has been torn down. It was a very large building a full city block.
DeleteBryant School for sure, I attended Bryant, and remember when they filmed. The school was closed by then, but that's the exterior and lunchroom also.
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Deletethe juvenile facility is at 4450 lincoln highway in st charles il
ReplyDeleteHi Chas. I love what you do here...it's great to follow along with my fave Chicago movies. I have a question though. At the 1:01 mark, you say that J.C. is coming out of the El station at 3940 Sheridan then walks south. That particular station is on Sheridan south of Irving Park. Therefore, if she walked out of that El station and headed south, it is not logical that she would have walked past a building at Broadway and Montrose as that intersection is several blocks north - 4300 North. The location further north would actually also be more consistent with the next scene if the El tracks in that scene are indeed located at 1050 W. Montrose as that location is a block west of the Broadway/Montrose/Sheridan intersection. Is that a continuity problem in the film?
ReplyDeleteYou could be right as J.C. was supposed to had worked at the Walgreens in Uptown on the corner of Wilson and Broadway near Truman College and the Red Line station. My thinking is that J.C. took the Red Line from Wilson and Broadway only one stop down to the Sheridan and Irving Park station. The inconsistency comes in where she's seen walking on Montrose and Broadway to her house where she gets raped under the Red Line which is a block over from Wilson and Broadway.
DeleteMy guess is they wanted to make it seem like she was walking from Sheridan and Irving Park but the shooting took place north of that on Montrose and Broadway. They probably couldn't shoot on Irving Park or something or just felt that Montrose was better for the rape scene because it's a little bit more isolated in that area.
I find it interesting that Paco says his address is 2395 Grand Avenue, which would pout him a little Southeast of Humboldt Park, close to the Western Ave Metra Station. If J.C. lives at 939 N. Walcott in the Ukranian/East Village Neighborhood, that would put Paco and J.C. in somewhat close proximity. Although probably not filmed on the Blue line, the Blue Line "El" is fairly close to the Walenski home, but the closest station at Division is underground. It comes above ground after Division.
DeleteIn the scene where J.C. gets off the "el" at Sheridan and heads north, the line curves there so if she heads north to Irving, and then turns west on Irving she would pass back under the "El" tracks. It is also possible they filmed under the Brown Line at Irving Park or Montrose.
Nice job. Precise on the Juvenile Prison/Detention Center. I live 4 minutes from there, in St Charles IL. I just watched the movie just because I was so excited to see what it looked like in the early 80s. I've driven by it probably 3,000 times. Do you know if they filmed the interior scenes at the same juvenile center in St Charles IL?
ReplyDeleteMy nextdoor neighbor was an extra in this film and the internal shots were filmed at the Naval Armory which has since been torn down. It was located just south of Navy Pier near the dreaded "S-Curve" of Lakeshore Dr.
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DeleteThe walgreens where j.c. worked is now a place called city sport and the wilson red line is fixing to change since the cta is rebuilding it.
ReplyDeleteSource: im from uptown
The Walgreens building is still there, only now it’s a city sports.
DeleteI believe there was also filming of the correctional facility scenes at a location in Michigan City
ReplyDeleteThe address for the prison is not 4450 Lincoln Hwy. in St. Charles,Il it is 3825 Compton Hills Road and close to Peck Road in St. Charles,Il 60175 and i looked this on google maps and on illinois state junenile website and it this address.The old Walgreens is now a City Sport at 4601 N. Broadway St.@ W. Wilson Ave. Chicago,Il 60640
ReplyDeleteThank you for the correction. I was taking an educated guess on the address based on some road markers. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
DeleteI believe that many of the outdoor scenes at the correctional facility were actually at Elgin Mental health center in Elgin IL on Rt. 20 & Rt 31. Especially the break out scene. I spent 8 weeks there as a Therapist intern. I remember playing many of softball games in that field with patients. the building (as most of them) has been torn down. even the one that is shown in the background that was built in the 60's when they made a break for the fence.
ReplyDeleteI have worked at the facility in st. Charles for the past 25 years and my coworkers from long ago were working there during the filming. The outdoor scenes were at the st. Charles facility including the softball fields. I used to play softball with the kids on those fields.
DeleteNot positive but :41 car wash location may be somewhere on Morgan Ave. I remember my dad saying they saw some of the filming Being done by his work. It was Commercial Light Company. They used to be on Morgan.
ReplyDeleteTo where Mick O’Brien entered the Juvenile detention center was on the Lincoln highway in St Charles, Illinois
ReplyDeletePaco Moreno’s house was also on 2395 Grande Ave, Chicago, Illinois
ReplyDeleteThe building that was the Walgreens and then a city sports has since been torn down. The whole corner was demolished. They are building an apartment/condo building now
ReplyDeleteI grew up on 1600 block of 18th street
ReplyDeleteTHE HIGHSCHOOL IS CALLED COOPER ELEMENTARY LOCATED OFF ASHLAND &19th St
ReplyDeleteI was at st. Charles home for boys as an inmate from 2000 to 2003. It took me 20 years to get my life back on track from there. Some of the staff and guards were awesome but some were completely corrupt and terrible. The whole system of incarceration juveniles for years at a time is trash.
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