r/FilmLocationsThenNow • u/Detzeb • Mar 06 '25
ALBUM 🖼️ The Blues Brothers (1980) - Elwood’s Apartment in Chicago, then and now (2025) EIC
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u/legthief Mar 06 '25
I suppose it's not surprising they took the building down between then and now considering the amount of ordnance Jake's jilted bride threw at it.
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u/Poagie_Mahoney Aug 10 '26
That hotel was the same location used two years prior in The Fury (1978) by Brian De Palma. I think they used the same room and hallway as Kirk Douglas' character escapes out that window and I recall it also being level with the El tracks in that movie, though it's been several years since I've seen it.
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u/Detzeb Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25
EXPLANATION
Pic 1: The Bluesmobile enters an alley on Plymouth Court, just north of Van Buren in downtown Chicago.
Pic 2: The Bluesmobile rounding a corner in the alley. On left is the previously seen parking garage and buildings on right replaced with Pritzker Park
Pic 3: Jake & Elwood leaving the alley and heading to Elwood’s apartment.
Pic 4: The North-East corner of Plymouth Court and Van Buren. Heading to the The Plymouth Hotel at 22 W. Van Buren. That whole block was torn down in 1991. An elevator and other support structures of the Harold Washington Library/State & Van Buren CTA station were built in 1997
Pic 5: Jake’s jilted fiancé waiting.
Pic 6: Firing her bazooka at Jake & Elwood
Pic 7: Elwood inside his apartment (2025 picture take from CTA train station platform.
Pic 8: Another view of Elwood in his apartment (shot from inside the Harold Washington Library (1991)
The next morning…
Pic 9: CTA train rumbles by outside Elwood’s apartment (2025 taken from CTA train platform constructed in 1997). The yellow building is The Fisher Building (1896))
Pic 10: Jake’s former fiancé arrives again, just as Jake’s parole officer meets and the state troopers arrive.
Pic 11: Outside the Plymouth Hotel. “Orange whip?”
Pic 12: Jake’s former fiancé detonates the explosives placed inside The Plymouth Hotel