| Northbrook is
a village located at the northern edge of Cook County,
Illinois. The population was 33,435 at the 2000 census,
and estimated to be 34,190 as of 2005. When incorporated
in 1901, the village was known as Shermerville in honor
of Frederick Schermer, who donated the land for its
first train station. The village changed its name in
1923 as an effort to improve its public image.
Director John Hughes has used
his hometown of Northbrook in several of his films.
Many parts of Ferris Bueller's Day Off were filmed at
Glenbrook North in the fall of 1985 with students serving
as extras (most of the interior shots, though, were
filmed at the shuttered Maine North High School). The
closing scene from the The Breakfast Club was shot at
the Glenbrook North High School football field. The
party scene from the movie Uncle Buck was filmed at
a house in the Highlands neighborhood, on Crabtree Lane.
The grocery store scene in She's
Having a Baby was filmed at Sunset Foods, and scenes
in Ordinary People and Weird Science were shot at the
Northbrook Court shopping mall. A small scene from the
movie Risky Business was shot at a highway ramp off
the Edens Expressway. Some interior shots from the 2005
Harold Ramis-directed movie Ice Harvest were filmed
in a revamped commercial building off of Commercial
Avenue.
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