Blues Brothers Tourism

A favorite movie of mine and my then-girlfriend's is The Blues Brothers.  She had clipped a newspaper article documenting the sites of the location shoots in Chicago.  In 2008 we toured them.  It was a fun day.  Almost all of the interior/dialogue scenes were shot in Hollywood studios.  The location shots were used primarily (but not exclusively) for scene-setting.

We didn't see 'em all, and we couldn't photograph well some that we did see.  An example of the former is the culvert/tunnel in which Carrie Fisher ("mystery girl" in the script) tries to machine-gun Jake.  It's in the Lincoln Park Zoo.  An example of the latter is the restaurant "Chez Paul," where Jake and Elwood enjoy their shrimp cocktails.  It was then a restaurant but is now a condo at about 600 N. Dearborn St.  We couldn't get a decent picture shooting into the sun while trying to get the building into frame.

Pilote outside the gate of the prison where Elwood awaited Joliet Jake.

The 95th Avenue Bridge over the Calumet River, where the Bluesmobile performs its jump.

Exterior of Jake and Elwood's orphanage, which they learn from Sister Mary Stigmata ("The Penguin") is about to be closed.  It was then and still is the ex-Schonenhofer Brewery.  It's South Loop office space today. 

The Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, through which the cops chase Jake and Elwood.  It was slated to close when the movie was shot, so "renting" it was easy.  Still tough times on Southside Chicago: brownfield opportunites!

Triple Rock Baptist Church, where Jake has his vision of of getting the band back together.
There was a REAL funeral in progress on the morning we visited, so we did not go in.

Mrs. Tarrantino's house in Cicero, where Jake and Elwood begin tracking down former band members.

"Ray's Music Exchange,"  300 E. 47th St.  It was a pawn shop before the movie and is a pawn shop today.  The "Shake Your Tail Feather" dance routine was shot from here, looking toward the El station that's out of frame to the left.

The "Effing Illinois Nazis bridge," in Jackson Park near the University of Chicago.

Off topic: 2120 South Michigan Avenue, the offices and studios of Chess Records in the 1950's and 1960's.
Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Buddy Guy, and many others well-known to fans of
"Chicago-style electric blues" recorded here on the second floor.  Today it is a blues museum.