"It's pretty lowkey, so it's kind of easy to get on a float," Giangreco said. When parade-goers recognized the group dressed like Ferris Bueller and the gang, they were more than willing to allow Giangreco and her friends to hop on a float. In real life, the parade takes place in September," she said. "It's featured in the film, but the film takes place in the spring. The Steuben Parade, which takes place annually in a local German neighbourhood, is a real procession in all its glory. But she never dreamed that the same parade from the film would be happening on the day of her project. "When people watch the movie, they probably think Wrigley Field is downtown but it's not at all it's in a different neighbourhood." 'One of the best days of my life'Īs for finding a Cubs' game playing on a Saturday, Giangreco didn't think she'd run into any debacles. "It didn't make sense to go from downtown, back to the Cubs' stadium, which is nowhere near downtown," she said. Niphoratos, Edes and Giangreco at Glencoe Beach. So she shuffled the itinerary around in accordance with geographical convenience.
In the film, Bueller and his antics are all over the map. While the group attends a Cubs' game, dances to Twist and Shout at the parade, then observes some Picassos at the Art Institute of Chicago - in that order - the timeline didn't add up to Giangreco. "I did tweak the timeline a little bit," Giangreco said, Mapping out the dayīecoming Ferris Bueller in the span of a single school day presented its challenges, chronologically.
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Turns out the itinerary was mostly possible to complete, plus a few caveats. As Giangreco wrote: "If you're going to think like Ferris, though, you have to believe that no challenge is insurmountable." And the floor at the stock exchange where the gang visits is no longer open to the public. (Leigh Giangreco/The Washington Post)Ĭhez Quis, where Bueller snags a reservation belonging to Abe Froman, "The Sausage King of Chicago," is pure fiction. Niphoratos, Edes and 12-year-old Indiana resident, Dax Durbin - who was also, coincidentally, recreating Ferris Bueller's Day Off - at the Art Institute of Chicago. Some attractions weren't available or simply didn't exist outside the film's scope. The film sees Ferris, his girlfriend Sloane and his best friend Cameron visit the Sears Tower, a Cubs' game and the Von Steuben Day parade among other things. It's a fast moving day, especially considering the multitude of escapades Ferris dispatches in the one-hour-and-38-minute film, before he literally runs home at 6 p.m. "I think doing all those activities in one day really makes you feel like a kid, and also you just learn to appreciate the city so much more." 'No challenge is insurmountable' My friends and I all dressed up like the characters," she told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. "I did walk in his shoes, and his vest too. In a piece published in the Washington Post this month, Giangreco documents the Saturday she spent with friends walking in Bueller's shoes - literally. All in all cool view and worth the money if you can afford to do it.As It Happens 6:30 This journalist and her friends took a day off in Chicago - Ferris Bueller styleįerris Bueller is a wise-cracking, fast-moving, wily teen whose adventure in Ferris Bueller's Day Off proves that you can see the best of Chicago in one day.īut the magic of the 1986 film had Chicago journalist Leigh Giangreco ask herself: Could it really be done? I recommend if you go with a group, divide up into two lines so you can take pics of one another from the corresponding windows. You will feel pressure from those waiting in line to hurry up and get out of the way. The view is spectacular, but it was crowded and you really don't get the time to a) enjoy the view from any window b) get time to leisurely take pics on the skydecks. However, that being said we were still herded through several more long lines and then a 10 min video (albeit interesting and about Chicago) before we were finally allowed to take the elevator up. My husband is law enforcement and did come armed and with credentials, so luckily we skipped to the front of the line past like 30 people. I laughed in disagreement, and more than two hours later we were back. My husband said he thought we'd be done in an hour (hoping for less of a parking charge).
We parked two blocks away and the garage charges by the hour.
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