There’s no doubt that Chicago is a beautiful city, but beautiful days in Chicago—like 75 degrees at the lakefront, 74 at Midway, 73 at O’Hare kind of days—are rare enough to be treasured.
That wasn’t lost on legendary 1980s Hollywood writer-director John Hughes, whose era-defining teenage coming-of-age dramedies were mostly set in and around the midwest city’s North Shore suburbs, where Hughes spent his formative years.
Released in the summer of 1986, Hughes’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off chronicles a high-risk sunny spring day of hooky played by wily high school senior Ferris (Matthew Broderick), his girlfriend, Sloane (Mia Sara), and his neurotic best friend, Cameron (Alan Ruck)…