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Power, pursuit and confrontation

Follow The Untouchables through 5 real places in Chicago. Beaux-Arts interiors and civic façades turn Prohibition history into operatic crime cinema.

Read in this order, then plan travel between the public locations. Historical references and private properties are not visitor stops. This is a story sequence, not a timed walking itinerary.

Place and area markers · not exact camera positions

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Selected: Chicago Board of Trade Building
  1. 01
    Civic power · Money and the river

    Begin at the Board of Trade and DuSable Bridge, where the city’s monumental surfaces establish the film’s scale.

    FILM LOCATION

    Chicago Board of Trade Building

    Chicago Board of Trade Building at the end of the LaSalle Street canyon
    Antoine Taveneaux · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cropped location photograph

    The Chicago Board of Trade Building gives the film a monumental financial-district façade suited to its vision of power.

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  2. 02
    FILM LOCATION

    DuSable Bridge

    DuSable Bridge over the Chicago River
    Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped location photograph

    The Michigan Avenue Bridge, now formally the DuSable Bridge, places the production on the river’s civic threshold.

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  3. 03
    The pursuit · Offices and arrivals

    Continue through Union Station and the Rookery, two distinct locations often collapsed into generic Loop atmosphere.

    FILM LOCATION

    Chicago Union Station

    The Great Hall of Chicago Union Station
    Fyu · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Cropped location photograph

    Union Station contains the film’s best-known staircase sequence, turning daily transport architecture into operatic suspense.

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  4. 04
    FILM LOCATION

    The Rookery Building

    The Rookery Building at 209 South LaSalle Street
    Marlene Calderon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Cropped location photograph

    The Rookery Building serves as the Untouchables’ office location; its protected interior remains a working building with controlled access.

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  5. 05
    The confrontation · Capone at the theatre

    End in the Auditorium Theatre lobby, subject to the working venue’s present-day access.

    FILM LOCATION

    Auditorium Theatre

    The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago
    bradhoc · CC BY 2.0 · Cropped location photograph

    Inside the Auditorium Theatre lobby, Elliot Ness confronts Capone. Visit only within the venue’s current public or ticketed access.

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