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Southside
Firehouse, West Cermak Road, Chicago
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filming locations
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CREDITS
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Ron
Howardís firefighter epic – great conflagrations,
sudsy plotlines – was filmed in the Chicago
neighbourhoods of Oak Park
(home to the Frank Lloyd Wright museum and many of his
houses ‚ the elevator shaft scenes filmed here) and
Hinsdale.
The fire stations are at Archer
and Sacramento Streets; and the Southside
Firehouse, West Cermak Road, in Chinatown
a few yards west of the Cermak-Chinatown el station
on the Lake/Dan Ryan line.
The funeral scene filmed in the prestigious 1860 Graceland
Cemetery, last resting place of Chicagoís
19th century notables and such household names as architect
Mies van der Rohe, storeowner Marshall Field and sleeping-car
inventor George Pullman. Itís on North
Clark Street at Irving Park Road, Wrigleyville.
The final huge parade of 2,000 firefighters was filmed
in central Chicago, on Michigan
Avenue, at the foot of the famous Wrigley
Building.
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