There are few Chicago cliches more overdone than the Blues Brothers. Maybe hot dogs. OK, deep dish. The Bears logo. The Cubs logo. The Bean. Then there’s that iconic silhouette — dark shades ...

This story was first published on June 20, 2005. A quarter-century ago, “The Blues Brothers” embraced Chicago as no other film has, before or since. The movie tapped directly into the heart of ...

One summer evening, back in the ‘80s, I filed into a Chicago theater and beheld my city on the big screen, pretty much for the first time. I saw "The Blues Brothers," the crazy car-crash comedy ...

Before he arrived at the Old Joliet Prison south of Chicago, now the Joliet Area Historical Museum, Erik Devereux made sure his ensemble was in appropriate Blues Brothers order. The basics weren ...

where Jake and Elwood terrorized a roomful of Chicago aristocrats. A few can even spot John Landis, the director of “The Blues Brothers,” in a cameo in the Daley Plaza scene. Well, here are ...

And that, more or less, is how Chicago became a regular location for movie production. 'Love letter to the city' In June 1980, 30 years ago, "The Blues Brothers" premiered. Keeping with Belushi's ...

Blues in particular has been mined in recent years by photographers, resulting in a number of excellent books of portraits. Two of the most recent have focused on Chicago blues artists from South ...

Does “The Blues Brothers” deserve a book? In the pantheon of gloriously dumb movie comedies derived from “Saturday Night Live” and the National Lampoon, the 1980 John Belushi-Dan Aykroyd R ...

Chicago’s steel industry was formidable ... jumped the raised 95th Street bridge in the 1980 movie “The Blues Brothers,” the steel industry in the United States was on the verge of decline.

If you watch The Blues Brothers as many times as I have, you’ll eventually start noticing references to Chicago political figures of the 1970s, when the movie was filmed. Just another reason it ...