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Made In Illinois

Illinois has had a rich and long film history. Find out what movies featured Illinois cast, crew and locations.

 

Minding the Gap (2018) Blues Brothers (1980) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2014) Divergent (2013) Man of Steel (2011) Transformers 3 (2010) The Untouchables (1987) Public Enemies (2008) The Break-Up (2006)
Batman Begins (2005) My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) Spider-Man 2 (2002) Light It Up (1999) Color of Money (1986) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1985) 16 Candles (1983) U.S. Marshals (1997) While You Were Sleeping (1994)

 

 

2023

  • Desire Lines
  • Ghostlight
  • Mea Culpa

 

2022

  • 99 Problems
  • Heist 88
  • Perpetrator
  • Running
  • The Killer
  • We Grown Now

 

2021

  • 8-Bit Christmas
  • Christmas …Again?!
  • Good Guy With A Gun
  • Hot Mess Holiday
  • Merry Switchmas
  • The Batman
  • The Year Between

 

2020

  • All Jacked Up and Full of Worms
  • Christmas Again

 

2019

  • Candyman
  • I Used To Go Here
  • Thunder Force
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7

 

2018

  • Beats
  • Minding the Gap

 

2017

  • An Acceptable Loss
  • Book of Leah
  • Canal Street
  • Captive State
  • Rampage
  • Soul Sessions
  • The Christmas Gift
  • Widows

 

2016

  • Bad Santa 2
  • Death Wish
  • The Empty Man
  • Landline
  • Mercury in Retrograde
  • Office Christmas Party
  • Signature Move

  

2015

  • Chiraq
  • Imperfections
  • Jim Shoo
  • Operator
  • Southside with You
  • Who Get’s the Dog?

 

2014

  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
  • Sinister 2
  • Insurgent 
  • Unexpected

     

2013

  • Divergent
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Transformers 4

 

2012

  • Dhoom3
  • Drinking Buddies
  • Johnson
  • Warren

 

2011

  • Altered
  • Broken & Beautiful
  • Directors
  • Just Like a Woman
  • Marching Banned
  • Melody & Old Sock Nate & Margaret
  • Rose White
  • Roundabout American
  • Superman: Man of Steel

 

2010

  • Alive
  • Bad Teacher
  • Colombiana
  • Contagion
  • Crave
  • Get a Job
  • Laughing Out Loud
  • Life Lessons
  • Lino's Late
  • Motivational Growth
  • One Small Hitch
  • Salvaging
  • Shakey
  • Sin Bin 
  • Source Code
  • The Alumni Chapter
  • The Dilemma
  • The Interrogation
  • The Trio Project
  • The Vow
  • Transformers 3
  • Turkish Coffee
  • Victim of Gravity

 

2009 

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Bluegrass Run
  • Couples Retreat
  • Distortion
  • Einstein's God Model
  • Happily After
  • Janie Jones
  • Polish Bar
  • Return of Joe Rich
  • Schzigo Chicago
  • The Last Rites of Joe May
  • The Moleman of Belmont Avenue
  • Trust
  • What's your Raashee?

 

2008

  • Ameeka
  • Baby on Board
  • Desertion
  • Distortion
  • Eagle Eye
  • Everybody's Fine
  • Fallen Souls
  • Fancy Pants
  • Five Star Day
  • Formosa Betrayed
  • Go For It
  • Hannah Free
  • Horsemen
  • Hunter
  • LAID: Life as it's Dealt
  • Midrange
  • Neighborhood
  • Nothing Like the Holidays
  • Public Enemies
  • The Helix
  • The Informant
  • The Landlord
  • The Rotogravure
  • The Suitcase
  • The Unborn
  • They Came from Upstairs
  • Traitor
  • Waiting

 

2007

  • Actually, Adieu my Love
  • Chicago Overcoat
  • Diacritical
  • Diminished Capacity
  • Eagle Eye
  • Farewell Darkness
  • Fred Claus
  • Jerry for President
  • Kit Kittridge: An American Girl
  • Make it Happen
  • Meet the Browns
  • My Friends Told Me About You
  • Of Boys & Men
  • Seven Soles
  • Sex Drive
  • Silent Shame
  • Squeal
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Disappearance of Daniel Dodger
  • The Express
  • The Merry Gentleman
  • The Poker House
  • The Root of All Evil (The Cache)
  • The Time Traveler's Wife
  • Wanted
  • Were the World Mine
  • Witless Protection

 

2006

  • Actually Adieu my Love
  • Arithmetic Lesson
  • August Rush
  • Beau Jest
  • Black Mail
  • Counting Backwards
  • D.O.A.P.
  • Diacritical
  • Fred Claus
  • Grace is Gone
  • Grudge 2
  • He's Such a Girl
  • License to Wed
  • Love, Blood Cryptonite
  • Osso Bucco
  • Providence
  • Shattered
  • Sketches
  • Stash
  • Tapioca
  • The 1/2 Life of Mason Lake
  • The Break-Up
  • The First Breath of Tengan Rei
  • The Promotion (formerly Quebec)

 

2005

  • Batman Begins
  • Chasing Robert
  • The Lake House
  • 39 - A Film by Carroll McKane
  • The Door
  • A Rain of Blood
  • Drunk Boat
  • Stranger than Fiction
  • Dimension
  • Crime Fiction
  • The Gift
  • Riff Raff
  • Say Hello to Clive for me
  • Cousins
  • Rollover
  • Let's go to Prison
  • Get Pony Boy
  • Flags of our Fathers
  • Dustclouds
  • All Fall Down
  • Get a Life
  • A Voice from the Grave
  • Cheaper by the Dozen 2
  • Fool's Gold
  • In the Name of God
  • The Pack
  • Spinning into Butter

 

2004

  • The Weather Man
  • Bad City
  • Under the City
  • Ocean's Twelve
  • Windy Field
  • Roll Bounce
  • Finding Preet
  • Bloom
  • Relative Strangers
  • Amityville Horror
  • Christmas with the Kranks
  • Poetic Emancipation
  • The Vessel
  • Regretful Decision
  • American Gun
  • The Trouble with Dee Dee
  • Proof
  • Derailed
  • Welcome Back to the Barrio
  • The Long Goodbye
  • A Series of Small Things
  • I Want Someone to eat Cheese With
  • Surviving Christmas

 

2003

  • Barbershop 2
  • Blank Verse
  • Cheaper by the Dozen
  • Connie & Carla
  • Cup of my Blood
  • Even Trade
  • I-Robot
  • Legally Desi
  • Mr. 3000
  • No More Mondays
  • On the One
  • Outing Riley
  • Proof
  • Repetition
  • Shall we Dance
  • Strange as Angels
  • Street Thief
  • Sullivan
  • The Evil One
  • The Icing on the Cake
  • The Lot
  • The Weather Man
  • To Kill a Killer
  • Wicker Park

 

2002

  • Bad Meat
  • Barbershop
  • Bobbie got Grounded
  • Chicago: The Musical
  • Dark
  • Diagnosis Trauma
  • Insanity the Movie
  • Meditations on Trafficking
  • Midnight Mass
  • Players and Pawns
  • Skin Complex
  • Solaris
  • Spider-Man 2
  • Steps
  • Surviving Christmas
  • That Defining Moment
  • The A-Game
  • The Company
  • The In-Laws Clothe your Soul
  • The Kiln
  • The Lot
  • The Weather Man
  • Uncle Nino
  • Westside

 

2001

  • A Ball in the House
  • Ali
  • Design
  • Dragonfly
  • Eye of Cruelty
  • Hale Bopp
  • Joshua
  • Language Barrier
  • Missing Brendan
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • On the Line Stolen Summer
  • The Acedia Thing
  • The Misanthrope
  • The Road to Perdition
  • Twelve Minutes to Love

 

2000

  • Bounce 1
  • Bound & Gagged 2
  • Constructing Mulligan Stew
  • Danny's Wish
  • Design
  • Dragonfly
  • Dreamcatcher
  • Driven Present Perfect
  • Experiment Me
  • Harbored Thoughts
  • Hardball
  • High Fidelity
  • Imagine This
  • Israel in Exile
  • John Q
  • Life Sentence
  • Love Relations
  • Mr. Id
  • Novacaine
  • One Week
  • Save me a Seat (Liar’s Club)
  • Save the Last Dance
  • Short Hairs
  • Stray Dogs
  • Tenfold
  • The Rest of your Life
  • Unconditional Love
  • Vanilla City
  • What Women Want

 

1999

  • Adrift in the Heartland
  • All The Rage
  • Brothers 2
  • Bruised Orange
  • Dilemma
  • Dreamers
  • Just Visiting
  • Kwik Stop
  • Lana's Rain
  • Life Sentence
  • Light it Up
  • Madison Tricks
  • No Tomorrow
  • One Week
  • Return to Me
  • Rocky & Bullwinkle
  • Smile
  • Soul Survivors
  • The Watcher
  • Two Weeks, One Year
  • Unconditional Love
  • Under the Bus

 

1998

  • Aftermath
  • Betaville
  • Blessings from the Food Court
  • Desperation Boulevard
  • Following Paula
  • Fool's Gold
  • Goodbye Spaceship Al
  • Idea Men
  • Lamb
  • Lawrence Melm
  • Love and Action in Chicago
  • Marilyn
  • Merlot
  • Message in a Bottle
  • My Father’s Shoes
  • Never Been Kissed
  • Notes From the Field
  • Postmortem
  • Private Dick
  • Pushing Tin
  • Resurrection
  • Serious Business
  • Stir of Echoes
  • The High Line
  • The Sphinx File
  • Three to Tango
  • Time Served
  • Two Brothers in a Dope Car
  • Two Rivers
  • Under the Bus
  • Whiteboyz

 

1997

  • A Lover for My Husband
  • Apples and Oranges
  • Blues Brothers 2000
  • Casting Judgement
  • Chicago Cab
  • Deep End of the Ocean
  • Don't Flush
  • Down in the Delta
  • He Got Game
  • Hope Floats
  • I Do
  • Junk
  • Kissing a Fool
  • Kitchen Erotica
  • March in the Windy City
  • Mercury Rising
  • My Best Friend's Wedding
  • Night of the Running Boys
  • Oak Street Beach
  • On Becoming Blonde
  • Pardesi
  • Payback Tom & Jerry
  • Return of the Life
  • Sacrifices
  • Superman Lives
  • Temporary Girl
  • The Call
  • The Negotiator
  • U.S. Marshals
  • Young Americans

 

1996

  • 35 Miles from Normal
  • A Day in the Country
  • A Kick Inside
  • Butch Camp
  • Chain Reaction
  • Cold Night Into Dawn
  • Do You Wanna Dance?
  • Eating LA
  • Err on the Side of Caution
  • Home Alone III
  • Hoodlum
  • Love Jones
  • Michael
  • My Name is James
  • Primal Fear
  • Reach the Rock
  • Sketches Three Days
  • Soul Food
  • Spaceman
  • The Blank Page
  • The Book of Swords
  • The Chamber
  • The Jackal Weird Karma
  • You Gotta See This

 

1995

  • A Family Thing
  • Comedy Shorts
  • Conflicts of Interest 
  • Daphnebird
  • Dead Air
  • Doormen of America
  • Freak Occurrences
  • Girlfriends
  • Heaven's Breath
  • Paradise Lost
  • Reasons
  • Shiva's Rain
  • Space Jam
  • The American Way
  • The Commission
  • The Relic
  • The Vagrant

 

1994

  • Dear St. Anthony
  • Hoop Dreams
  • Lady Mary
  • Losing Isaiah
  • Men Of War
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • Objects Rhapsody
  • Richie Rich
  • Strawberry Fields
  • Stuart Saves his Family
  • The Best Short Feature Ever Made
  • The Joust
  • The Prodigy
  • While You Were Sleeping

 

1993

  • Baby's Day Out
  • Blankman
  • Blink
  • Dawn
  • Forever Yours
  • Him
  • Hudsucker Proxy
  • I Love Trouble
  • Little Big League
  • Major League 2
  • My Life
  • Natural Born Killers
  • Rudy
  • Scenes from the Soul
  • The Childhood Friend
  • The Fence Blue Chips
  • The Fugitive
  • Thieves Quartet
  • Wayne's World 2
  • With Honors

 

 

1992

  • A Man of Respect
  • Captain Ron 
  • Dennis the Menace
  • Groundhog Day
  • Hoffa
  • Home Alone 2
  • Judgement Night
  • Meet the Parents
  • Rookie of the Year
  • Rudy
  • Sleepless In Seattle

 

1991

  • A League of Their Own
  • An American Love
  • Candy Man
  • Curly Sue
  • Dutch
  • Folks
  • Gladiators
  • Hero
  • How U Like Me Now?
  • Just a Matter of Time
  • Mad Dog & Glory
  • Mo' Money
  • Prelude to a Kiss
  • Public Eye
  • Rapid Fire
  • Stand-Up
  • Straight Talk
  • The Babe
  • Watch It
  • Wayne's World

 

1990

  • Backdraft
  • Bix Beiderbecke Pastime
  • Child's Play II
  • Critical Action
  • Curly Sue
  • Heaven is a Playground
  • Home Alone
  • Johnny Ryan
  • Kid Who Loved Christmas
  • Only the Lonely
  • V.I. Warshawski

 

1989

  • Cold Justice
  • Flatliners
  • Geronimo
  • Miss Missouri
  • Music Box
  • Opportunity Knocks
  • Shaking the Tree
  • The Package
  • Uncle Buck
  • Victimless Crime

 

1988

  • Child's Play
  • Limit's Up
  • Major League
  • Men Don't Leave
  • National Lampoons' Christmas Vacation
  • Next of Kin
  • Taxi Killer
  • The Tender
  • War Zone
  • When Harry Met Sally

 

1987

  • Above the Law
  • Adventures in Babysitting
  • Afterlife with Father
  • All Set Mr. Pootski
  • Butterscotch & Chocolate
  • Midnight Run
  • Planes, Trains & Automobiles
  • Poltergeist III
  • Red Heat
  • Betrayed
  • Switching Channels
  • The Couch Trip
  • The Untouchables
  • Things Change
  • Vice Versa

 

1986

  • A Night in The Life of Jimmy Reardon
  • About Last Night
  • Big Shots
  • End of the Line
  • Goodbye Judy
  • Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
  • Light of Day Native
  • Son No Mercy
  • Raw Deal
  • Rent-a-Cop
  • She's Having a Baby
  • The Big Town
  • The Color of Money
  • The Messenger

 

1985

  • Club Paradise
  • Datenight
  • Death in California
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • Lucas
  • Nothing in Common
  • Outtakes
  • Raw Deal
  • Red Dragon
  • Running Scared
  • The Car Thief
  • Wildcats

 

1984

  • Code of Silence
  • Savage Beliefs
  • Touch & Go

 

1983

  • Come Around
  • Heartbreaker
  • Here's Chicago
  • Sixteen Candles
  • Streets of Fire
  • Sunny
  • The Big Score
  • The Naked Face

 

1982

  • Bad Boys
  • Class
  • Dr. Detroit
  • I Was a Mail Order Bride
  • National Lampoon's Vacation
  • Risky Business
  • The Apprentice
  • Things Are Tough All Over
  • Windy City

 

1981

  • Continental Divide
  • Pennies From Heaven
  • They Call Me Bruce

 

1980

  • Endless Love
  • Escape From NY
  • Four Friends On The Right Track
  • Ordinary People
  • The Blues Brothers
  • The Hunter
  • The Music Box
  • The Perfect Circle
  • The Psychotronic Man
  • Thief

 

1979

  • 1941
  • My Bodyguard
  • Ordinary People
  • Roar
  • Somewhere in Time
  • The Hunter

 

1978

  • Dreamer
  • Promises in the Dark
  • Towing

 

1977

  • A Piece of the Action
  • Damien-Omen II
  • Stony Island
  • The Fury
  • The Wedding

 

1976

  • Looking for Mr. Goodbar
  • Monkey Hustle
  • Silverstreak
  • Whisper the Sounds Roller Coaster

 

1975

  • Cooley High
  • Mahogany Brannigan

 

1973

  • The Sting
  • Three the Hard Way Harry and Tonto
  • Tough Guys
  • Uptown Saturday Night

 

1972

  • The Gore Gore Girls
  • The Naked Ape

 

1971

  • Rocco Papaleo
  • T.R. Baskin

 

1970

  • Prologue

 

1969

  • Finney
  • Gaily Gaily
  • Medium Cool
  • The Monitors

 

1968

  • Bullitt
  • The Young Runaways

 

1967

  • Country Western Hoedown
  • Fearless Frank
  • In the Heat of the Night
  • The Busy Body

 

1966

  • Nashville Rebel
  • Something Weird

 

1965

  • Mickey One

 

1964

  • Goldstein

 

1963

  • How the West was Won

 

1962

  • 1964
  • 1969
  • American Revolution 2
  • Route 66
  • The College
  • The Inheritance
  • Wilderness Calling

 

1961

  • Raisin in the Sun
  • Tomboy and the Champ

 

1960

  • The Prime Time

 

1959

  • North by Northwest

 

1957

  • Beginning of the End

 

1955

  • Chicago Syndicate

 

1953

  • City That Never Sleeps
  • The Joe Louis Story

 

1951

  • Chicago Calling
  • Native Son

 

1950

  • The Golden Gloves Story
  • Union Station

 

1948

  • Call Northside 777
  • The Babe Ruth Story

 

1947

  • Citizen Saint

 

1946

  • The Life and Miracles of Blessed Mother Cabrini

 

1944

  • Roger Touhy, Gangster!
  • The Navy Navy

 

1931

  • Three Exile
  • Three Girls Lost

 

1929

  • King of the Rodeo

 

1928

  • Chicago After Midnight

 

1927

  • Faith of Millions
  • Lightning

 

1926

  • International Eucharistic Congress
  • Sweet Adeline

 

1923

  • Adam's Rib
  • Gentle Julia
  • The Little Girl Next Door

 

1920

  • Do the Dead Talk?
  • In the Depths of our Hearts
  • Within our Gates

 

1919

  • Breed Of Men
  • The Challenge of Chance
  • The Homesteader
  • Through Hell and Back with the Men of Illinois
  • Where's Mary?

 

1918

  • A Busted Romance
  • A Milk Fed Hero
  • And the Children Play
  • Are Working Girls Safe?
  • Barnacle Bill
  • Billy the Janitor
  • Black Sherlock Holmes
  • Fixing the Faker
  • Good Luck in Old Clothes
  • Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled
  • Movie Marionettes
  • The Birth of a Race
  • The Bully
  • The City of Purple Dreams
  • The Comeback of Barnacle Bill
  • The Painters

 

1917

  • A Reckless Rover
  • Cracked Ice
  • Spooks
  • Spying the Spy
  • The Frozen Warning The Baseball Revue of 1917
  • The Penny Philanthropist
  • The Small Town Guy
  • When You Hit-Hit Hard
  • When You're Scared, Run

 

1916

  • Cousin Jim
  • Dreamy Dud has a Laugh on the Boss
  • Dreamy Dud in the African War Zone
  • Dreamy Dud Joyriding with Princess Zlim
  • Dreamy Dud, Lost at Sea
  • Power
  • The Little Girl Next Door
  • The Misleading Lady
  • The Right to Live
  • The Sting of Victory
  • The Truant Soul
  • Three Pals
  • Two Knights in Vaudeville
  • Uncle Sam Awake
  • Vernon Howe Bailey's Sketch Book of Chicago

 

1915

  • A Black Sheep
  • Dreamy Dud at the Old Swimmin' Hole
  • Dreamy Dud in King Koo Koo's Kingdom
  • Dreamy Dud in Love Dreamy Dud in Swim
  • Dreamy Dud Lost in the Jungle
  • Dreamy Dud Resolves not to Smoke
  • Dreamy Dud Sees Charlie Chaplin
  • Dreamy Dud Visits the Zoo
  • Dreamy Dud, a Visit to Uncle Dudley's Farm
  • Dreamy Dud, Cowboy
  • Dreamy Dud, Goes Bear Hunting
  • Dreamy Dud, up in the Air
  • Graustark
  • His New Job
  • In the Palace of the King
  • Should a Woman Divorce
  • The Crimson Wing
  • The End of the Road
  • The House of 1000 Candles
  • The Whirl of Life

 

1914

  • Chicago Herald Movies
  • Golf Champion Chick Evans Links with Sweedie
  • Joliet Prison
  • The Adventures of Kathlyn
  • The Jungle
  • The Pit

 

1913

  • Famous Illinois Canyons and Starved Rock

 

1912

  • Brotherhood of Man
  • Nepatia, The Greek Singer
  • The Starbucks

 

1911

  • The Coming of Columbus
  • Winning an Heiress

 

1910

  • Gotch-Zbyszko Wrestling Match
  • Hank & Lack: Lifesavers
  • Henry's Package
  • Levi's Dilemna
  • The Wizard of Oz

 

1909

  • Hunting Big Game in Africa
  • Ten Nights in a Barroom
  • The Magic Melody

 

1908

  • Gotch-Hackenschmidt Wrestling
  • The Baseball Fan
  • The Confession
  • The Count of Monte Cristo

 

1907

  • An Awful Skate/The Hobo on Rollers
  • The Dancing Night
  • The Grafter

 

1906

  • The Tramp and the Dog

 

1904

  • Humpty Dumpty
  • The Tramp Dog

 

1903

  • A Hot Time on a Bathing Beach
  • Business Rivalry
  • Chicago Fire Run
  • Chicago Fireboats on Parade
  • The Girl in Blue
  • Trip Around the Union Loop
  • View of State Street

 

1901

  • Chicago Police Parade
  • Dewey Parade
  • Gans-McGovern Fight

 

1900

  • Lincoln Park

 

1898

  • A Chicago Street
  • Illinois Central Terminal
  • Soldiers at Play

 

1897

  • Corner Madison & State Streets, Chicago

 

1896

  • The Tramp and the Dog