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Wacker Drive

major multilevel street in Chicago, Illinois, USA

United States · 41.8869, -87.6274

Wacker Drive is named as a filming location in the Wikipedia articles of 5 productions, in the section each entry below links back to. No Wikidata filming statement points here yet, so this page says plainly which kind of evidence it rests on. Published sources name it for more, each listed below with its publisher.

“In July, three weeks were spent filming the truck chase scene, mainly on Wacker Drive, a multi-level street that had to be closed overnight.”
The Dark Knight (2008) · Wikipedia

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Wacker Drive
Photo: Strugglebussing · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Wacker Drive as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, and labelled as what it is, each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.

  • The Dark Knight 2008
  • Batman Begins 2005
    “Some scenes, including the Tumbler pursuit, were filmed in Chicago at locations such as Lower Wacker Drive and 35 East Wacker.” Wikipedia
  • The Blues Brothers 1980
    “The other chase scenes included lower Wacker Drive, Lake Street and Richard J. Daley Center.” Wikipedia
  • Wanted 2008
    “Several chase scenes, including one with a low flying helicopter, were shot in Chicago over two days, on Wacker Drive along the Chicago River, between Columbus Drive and LaSalle Street.” Wikipedia
  • Streets of Fire 1984
    “All 10 days of filming in Chicago were exteriors at night, on locations that included platforms of elevated subway lines and the depths of Lower Wacker Drive.” Wikipedia

Named here by Wacker Drive’s own Wikipedia article

Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Wacker Drive, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.

From published sources

Productions a newspaper, a film office, a broadcaster or the production itself says were filmed at Wacker Drive, where no wiki records it. Each sentence below was found on its page and read before it was added, and its publisher is linked beside it.

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Frequently asked questions

What was filmed at Wacker Drive?

5 productions are recorded as filmed at Wacker Drive, including The Dark Knight (2008), Batman Begins (2005) and The Blues Brothers (1980). 5 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed at Wacker Drive?

The Dark Knight (2008), covered by 107 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Wacker Drive?

Wacker Drive is in the United States. Its coordinates are 41.8869, -87.6274.

What other filming locations are near Wacker Drive?

35 East Wacker (under 1 km), Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist (under 1 km), Marina City (under 1 km), Chicago Theatre (under 1 km) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

Where does this information come from?

Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Strugglebussing, CC BY-SA 4.0.