Well, that's assuming of course, that Chicago is laid out exactly as the fictional Gotham is. That would be like Cersei calling John Snow the King of the North when she should really be saying King of the NorthWest.
It's funny that you were watching The Dark Knight last night as so was I. Being that I live in Chicago, I enjoy seeing the different film locations in the movie and knowing where they are in real life. Every year I run down the street that Batman and Joker battled one on one before Gordon got the jump on the Joker when I do the annual Chicago Shamrock Shuffle 8K--it's where town hall is located and at the south end of the street (LaSalle Dr) is the CHicago Board of Trade Building. The status on the top of it had an unfinished face because when it was built in the early 20th centruy, no other building was high enough to see the detail of the face, haha. You can also see it clearly in "The Untouchables" and "Road to Perdition." The underground chase is Lower Wacker Drive which I use frequently to cheat traffic going to our night club. During breaks in filming Heath Ledger was sighted at our nightclub, using it to stay in character--and he did, he even weirded our clientele and we're a gothic/industrial club. The exterior of the opening bank scene is our old post office where a part of it acts as a viaduct that the Eisenhower (I-290) runs under. The license plates on the car are modeled after our Illinois license plates (up unti this year when we changed to a newer stupider looking one). The font and color scheme is the same but it says "Gotham" instead of "Illinois" and Lincoln's bust is replaced with the Gotham coat of arms. A friend of mine was an extra in the movie--you can see him in the first quarter of the movie loading money bags onto a truck to stash it away per the Hong Kong exec's instructions--for a split second. If you pause it just right, you can clearly see his face. He said it took hours to film that scene which only lasted 1 or 2 seconds. He had to pick up the money bag and put it on the truck over and over and over and over and take after take after take after take...you get the idea. There are red newspaper boxes in various scenes with a big red sphere on top. These are newspaper dispensers for the Red Eye, a local Chicago free publication.
I really enjoy watching that movie.
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