🏙 Towns & cities
Woodstock
city in McHenry County, Illinois, United States
🇺🇸 United States · 42.3096, -88.4353
Woodstock is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Woodstock, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 2 more.
“Woodstock is perhaps most famous for its role as the location for the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, starring Bill Murray.”
Movies filmed in Woodstock
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Woodstock as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
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Prison Break
2005–2017
“Exterior scenes were filmed in areas around Chicago, Woodstock, and Joliet in Illinois.” Wikipedia
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles 1987
Filming locations nearby
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Illinois Railway Museum
🇺🇸 United States
railway museum in Union, Illinois, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Cary
🇺🇸 United States
village in Illinois, United States
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Libertyville High School
🇺🇸 United States
high school in Illinois, United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Elgin
🇺🇸 United States
city in Cook and Kane counties in the northern part of the U.S. state of Illinois
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🛣 Streets & squares
Lake Street
🇺🇸 United States
street in Chicago, Illinois and west suburbs
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🛣 Streets & squares
Illinois Route 137
🇺🇸 United States
State highway in Lake County, Illinois, US
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Woodstock?
3 productions are recorded as filmed in Woodstock, including Groundhog Day (1993), Prison Break (2005–2017) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987). 2 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Woodstock?
Groundhog Day (1993), covered by 62 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Woodstock?
Woodstock is in the United States, at 42.3096, -88.4353.
What other filming locations are near Woodstock?
Illinois Railway Museum, Cary, Libertyville High School, Elgin and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
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 Cosmo1976, Public domain.