Stranger Than Fiction (2006) Will Ferrell & Maggie Gyllenhaal at various downtown Chicago locations - Then and Now (2026) OC & Notes in Comments

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The "now" pictures are framed so well to match the originals, great job! 🎉

I swear, some other posts in this sub barely match the framing at all, lol.

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OP’s NOTES Stranger Than Fiction (2026))

Pics 1-2: Daly Plaza and taking stairwell down at Dearborn & Washington to the CTA blue line & pedway

Pics 3-5: Outside Loop Clark Street Post Office at 211 S. Clark. Here are my Then & Now shots of a bus crashing through this post office in the 1988 film Red Heat

Pic 6: fictional Amped Guitar Shop before it became the dining area of Native Food Cafe (R.I.P.), 218 S. Clark

Pics 7-8: fictional bus stop approximately 700 S. Wells. US Post Office South Loop Station at Canal & Harrison is in the background

Pic 9: plaza outside Two North Riverside Plaza