Groundhog Day
While the setting for the 1993 movie Groundhog Day is Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, the action was almost entirely filmed in Woodstock, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago.
The bed and breakfast where Bill Murray’s character, cynical TV weatherman Phil Connors, stays is now the Cherry Tree Inn B&B, at 344 Fremont Street. Promising “no rigid schedules, stuffiness or hovering”, guests are invited to sit back and enjoy an iced tea on the front porch as star-spangled banners fly in the breeze over this historic Victorian home.
Guests can also book a private Groundhog Day tour and stay in the $199 per night Magnolia Suite to stare out of the exact same bay windows as Connors did each morning in the fantasy comedy.
The real town of Punxsutawney, about 85 miles northeast of
Pittsburgh, is not seen in the film but, yes,
Groundhog Day is celebrated there every year on
February 2.
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