Travel Reference
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Chicago as Backdrop
Get warmed up for your trip to Chicago by renting one of these Chicago-based
flicks:
•
Adventures in Babysitting
(1987)
•
Barbershop
(2002) and
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
(2004)
•
Batman Begins
(2005)
•
Blues Brothers 2000
(1998; note the original
Blues Brothers
movie is rated R)
•
The Break Up
(2006)
•
The Dark Knight
(2008)
•
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
(1985)
•
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
(1986)
•
High Fidelity
(2000)
•
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
(2002)
•
My Best Friend's Wedding
(1997)
•
Prelude to a Kiss
(1992)
•
The Fugitive
(1993)
•
While You Were Sleeping
(1995)
•
Save the Last Dance
(2001)
IMAX films on its six-story, 80-foot-wide screen, but also 3-D movies. The
OMNIMAX
Theater
at the M useum of Science and I ndustry, 57th S treet and Lake S hore D rive
(
&
773/684-1414;
www.msichicago.org), usually presents movies in conjunction with
exhibits. The theater also has an Omnilaser Fantasy light show featuring rock music and
costs the same as a movie. To ensure tickets, reserve in advance—even if you have a ticket,
get there early, because the line for seats begins forming about 20 minutes in adv ance.
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DANCE
Ballet Chicago
Ages 10 & up.
Under artistic director Daniel Duell, a former N ew
York City Ballet dancer, the group is notable for its specialty: the ballets of B alanchine.
The ballet performs one full-length story ballet a year, usually in April or May.
&
312/251-
8838.
www.balletchicago.org. Tickets $12-$25.
The Dance Center—Columbia College Chicago
Ages 10 & up.
Columbia Col-
lege, a liberal arts institution specializing in the arts and media, has been growing by leaps
and bounds in r ecent y ears. I ts D ance Center—the hub of Chicago 's modern dance
milieu—features an intimate “black box” 275-seat performance space with stadium seat-
ing and mar velous sightlines. The Dance Center hosts at least a doz en performances a
year by both international and national touring groups and homegrown choreographers.
1306 S. M ichigan Ave.
&
312/344-8300.
www.colum.edu/dance_center. Tickets $15-$25. Sub -
way/El: Red Line to Roosevelt. Bus: 151.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Ages 12 & up.
Dance lovers recommend that if
you're going to see just one dance per formance while you're in town, make it H ubbard
Street, Chicago's best-known dance troupe whose mix of jazz, modern, ballet, and theater
dance has won many devoted local fans. Sometimes whimsical, sometimes romantic, the
