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  • (Like being the prettiest Denny's waitress. You may be the best at that Denny's, but that don't mean you're a looker....)
    Karl, that one is timeless...
    We really loved the original Blues Brothers movie around here. It was filmed around town.

    If they would have gone two more houses down in the first police chase scene before the mall scene, they would have shown my grandma's house. They paid everybody $10- $20 per night to leave their lights on all night so they could film the scene without too much traffic.

    For every police car that they crashed, Dan Akroyd and John Belushi replaced it with a brand new one. There were wrecked cop cars from that movie all over the junk yards here, like 7 - 10 per yard back then.

    Not to mention that they were from Chicago also (Dan & John).

    The mall that they drove through was on the south side, Dixie Mall. It was abandoned before they filmed the movie, and they fixed it up for the movie. They say that they left it in worse shape after the filming than before they started. It was never opened again after that, and has since been torn down.
    There used to be three airports here, but one of our past mayors had it demolished overnight to make a music theater.

    The international one is O'hare on the north side. My grandma lives 5 minutes from there. Her house was almost in the first Blues Brothers movie back in 1980.

    It goes back and forth as to which airport is the busiest in the country between O'hare and Atlanta. O'hare has 200,000 - 250,000 passengers per day on average....
    kick butt...... gigity gigity. wait a min...I didn't know there are two airports there ....I go through the one that has INTL. flights ...I don't know which is which or where I am in Chicago.
    Hi Rani. Yes, if you are in either airport in Chicago, give me a call. O'hare or Midway. I'm about half way in between both of them. Gigity, gigity...
    it is great to meet FABO members and next time I am in Chicagoish airport ....I want to meet you if that is ok with you.
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