Chicago has a habit of playing other cities, and two of its hotels have hidden film credits.
Four Seasons Hotel Chicago: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Home Alone 2 is set in New York and stars The Plaza, but much of the production was based in Chicago, where the first film had been shot, and some of the sequel was filmed at the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago on the Magnificent Mile. Macaulay Culkin's Kevin McCallister is, in other words, sometimes in Illinois.
Hilton Chicago: The Fugitive (1993)
Near the end of The Fugitive, Harrison Ford's Dr. Richard Kimble crashes a pharmaceutical conference at the Hilton Chicago to confront the man who framed him for his wife's murder, and Tommy Lee Jones's US Marshal Samuel Gerard chases him through the building. The sequence starts at the hotel's Michigan Avenue entrance and runs through the Grand Ballroom, the Conrad Suite and even the back-of-house laundry. Jones won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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- Four Seasons Hotel Chicago: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
- Hilton Chicago: The Fugitive (1993)
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