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Southern Food Restaurant · Lakeview · 51 tips and reviews
Filmsquare: Featured at the beginning of The Untouchables (1987), 3369 N Clark St was used for a scene where Frank Nitty leaves a bomb in a speak-easy and makes fast his getaway.
Filmsquare: After his first failed liquor raid, Eliot Ness takes a walk on the pedestrian deck of the Michigan Avenue Bridge and receives a lesson in Policing from Malone in The Untouchables (1987).
Filmsquare: The upper foyer of the Chicago Theatre can be seen in The Untouchables (1987) in an early scene as Al Capone receives his morning newspaper and the Bookkeeper checks the accounts.
525 S Racine Ave (btwn Congress Pkwy & Harrison St), Chicago, IL
College Stadium · University Village - Little Italy · 26 tips and reviews
Filmsquare: Prior to the UIC Pavilion being built, 1634 Racine Ave stood on this site, a building used in The Untouchables (1987) as the home of Malone, where he first meets Ness and is ultimately gunned down.
Filmsquare: Malone takes Eliot Ness here to discuss joining his team in The Untouchables (1987), because the police precinct's "walls have ears"! The idea for the two to meet in a church was Sean Connery's idea.
Filmsquare: After he puts his team together, Eliot Ness is lead across the street to the "US Post Office" for their first successful raid in The Untouchables (1987).
Filmsquare: The Crystal Ballroom of the Blackstone Hotel was used in The Untouchables (1987) for Al Capone's inspiring, but ultimately bloody speech on team work.
Filmsquare: 2030 22nd Place was used as Eliot Ness' home in The Untouchables (1987), where the agent and his family are threatened by Frank Nitti as he returns home on his daughter's birthday.
Filmsquare: Hardy Bridge and the surrounding countryside were used for filming of a scene in The Untouchables (1987) where the team intercept a booze shipment with the help of the Mounties.
Filmsquare: The exterior entrance and interior reception and staircase were used for filming of The Untouchables (1987), where Eliot Ness, enraged at the murder of his colleague, Wallace, confronts Al Capone.
225 S Canal St (btwn W Adams St & W Jackson Blvd), Chicago, IL
Rail Station · West Loop · 313 tips and reviews
Explore Chicago: Union Station’s south staircase is the setting for one of The Untouchables’ most memorable scenes, which depicts a baby carriage caught in a crossfire. This scene pays homage to Battleship Potemkin.
78 E Washington St (btwn N Michigan & N Garland Ct.), Chicago, IL
Museum · The Loop · 153 tips and reviews
Filmsquare: The Cultural Centre appears in The Untouchables (1987) as the location of the opera Al Capone attends, the courtroom exterior where Frank Nitti is frisked and the roof from which he is thrown.
Filmsquare: Eliot Ness' first raid, in which he only finds crates of paper umbrellas and no liquor, was filmed across W 19th Pl for The Untouchables (1987). The main building has since been torn down.
214 W Van Buren St (btwn Franklin & Wells), Chicago, IL
Vietnamese Restaurant · The Loop · 10 tips and reviews
Filmsquare: Banh Mi & Co at 214 W Van Buren St is the only remaining building from a scene in The Untouchables (1987) in the alley at the side and back of the building where Wallace is killed in an elevator.