It's not often that Stephen King ventures outside of his home area of Maine for a project, but 34 years ago that happened when one of his thrillers was filmed entirely in Missouri for a very good reason.
There are very few movies that bring Illinois to mind more than Ferris Bueller's Day Off. You can see many of the iconic scenes in that movie were really filmed in several Illinois places and a few that weren't, too.
It is now a cult classic, but then it was a low-budget motion picture that was about New York City as a walled prison. Escape from New York was really filmed nearly entirely in St. Louis, Missouri and you can see the filming locations as they look today.
They were on a mission from God. There are few things that are more Illinois than The Blues Brothers whose movie has become a cult classic and many of the real Illinois filming locations are the same then as they are now as new photos and videos prove.
If you went to the grocery store in Illinois right now and purchased the same items Kevin did in the "Home Alone," movie how much would it cost you nowadays?
It hasn’t even been two full weeks since the Hallmark Channel released the Christmas movie “Holiday Touchdown” that was told from within the world of the Kansas City Chiefs, but there is already talk of a sequel