In “The Blues Brothers,” Elwood and Jake spent Jake’s first night out of jail at the Plymouth at 22 W. Van Buren. Filmmakers shot inside the hotel, including its long narrow flight of stairs ...

The Plymouth Hotel, where the Blues Brothers slept as L trains rumbled by, ... “You have to credit ‘The Blues Brothers’ with putting Chicago very much on the Hollywood radar,” said Rich ...

The following is adapted from “The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic,” published March 19 by Atlantic Monthly Press. The author ...