The tiny Chicago suburb the place no less than six individuals have been fatally shot at a Fourth of July parade Monday was beforehand finest often called a backdrop for a few of most iconic films of the Eighties.
From “Dangerous Enterprise to “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the sprawling properties and tree-lined streets of Highland Park, Sick., gave film followers a sense of the affluence and comfort by which rich children courted hassle exterior the Windy Metropolis.
The suburb additionally was the place the place teen misfits conjured up their perfect girl in “Bizarre Science” and heartthrob high-school senior Jake Ryan’s wild occasion came about in “Sixteen Candles.”
Late director John Hughes set most of his films in and round Chicago, with Highland Park amongst his go-to places.
Ferris Bueller’s finest pal, Cameron Frye, lived in a surprising native glass-sided home overlooking the wooded ravine the place he destroyed his dad’s prized 1961 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder convertible in certainly one of the movie’s most memorable scenes.
Generally known as the Ben Rose Home after its first proprietor, the landmark dwelling was designed by the late Chicago architect A. James Speyer, a disciple of famed modernist Mies van der Rohe.
The Emmy-winning 2001 TV documentary collection “American Excessive” additionally chronicled a yr within the lives of 16 Highland Park teenagers as they grappled with points together with drug use, parental divorce and popping out as homosexual.
Members of the Nineties championship-winning Chicago Bulls — together with hoop legends Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen and the crew’s late basic supervisor Jerry Krause — all owned mansions in Highland Park at one time.
