CREDITS FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, 1986 dir: John Hughes Matthew Broderick Alan Ruck Mia Sara Jeffrey Jones

“The question isn't ‘What are we going to do?’ the question is ‘What aren't we going to do?’”

Matthew Broderick became a cult role model to the slacker generation as Ferris Bueller, bunking off school to spend a day bumming around Chicago.

Set, like many John Hughes films, in the fictitious Illinois town of ‘Shermer’ (Shermerville was the name of Hughes’ neighbourhood of Northbrook until 1923).

Ferris Bueller’s school is Glenbrook North High School, 2300 Shermer Road, Northbrook, and previously used by Hughes in The Breakfast Club).

Windy City landmarks visited include the Sears Tower Skydeck on the 103rd floor of the (then) tallest building in the world, the Sears Tower, between West Adams Street, West Jackson Boulevard, South Franklin Street and South Wacker Drive in the Loop (tel: 312. 875. 9696); Wrigley Field, 1060 West Addison Street, home of the Chicago Cubs, at North Clark Street in Wrigleyville, and the Art Institute of Chicago, South Michigan Avenue at East Adams Street in the Loop (tel: 312. 443.3600).

Day out: The Art Institute of Chicago

The parade Bueller joins with a rendition of Twist And Shout is a real annual German-American parade filmed on Dearborn Street, intercut with a restaging for the movie on the following Saturday, when 10,000 locals turned up in response to ads on the radio and in newspapers.

But even in a John Hughes movie, itís not all Chicago: Ferris Bueller’s house is in LA.

It’s 4160 Country Club Drive, just south of Virginia Country Club in Long Beach, which seems to be a popular house for filming: it was seen in Red Dragon and as the home of Preston Wasserstein (Robert Patrick Benedict) in the Risky Business parody in Not Another Teen Movie.