Sun-Times film critic Richard Roeper’s film-pedia

SHERMER HIGH SCHOOL

Located in Hughesland, aka the North Shore movie universe of John Hughes. Prominent alumni include Ferris Bueller, Sloane Peterson, Cameron Frye (all famous for taking the day off); Samantha Baker (famous for her family forgetting her 16th birthday); John Bender, Claire Standish, Andrew Clark, Brian Johnson and Allison Reynolds (famous for a marathon eighthour detention session); and Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly (famous for creating a dream virtual woman named Lisa).

CHEZ QUIS

Upscale Gold Coast restaurant where Ferris Bueller secured a table by impersonating Abe Froman, “The Sausage King of Chicago.” (Question: What happened when the real Abe Froman showed up for his reservation?)

’A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF LA GRAND JATTE’

Famous pointillist painting by Georges Seurat that mesmerizes Cameron in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” As the camera draws ever closer to the painting, rendering the images nearly indecipherable, Cameron feels he, too, is disappearing into nothingness. Something like that.

THE SUN-TIMES IN THE MOVIES

In the 1948 classic “Call Northside 777,” James Stewart played a reporter for the Chicago Times (the precursor to the Sun-Times) whose work exonerates a man wrongly convicted for murder. Based on a real-life Chicago case. James Woods played an investigative reporter for the Sun-Times in “Straight Talk” (1992), a very bad movie. Drew Barrymore played a 25-year-old copy editor for the Sun-Times in “Never Been Kissed” (1999), a sweet romantic comedy also featuring Chicago native John C. Reilly.

MARINA TOWERS

Buildings resembling up-righted corn cobs, designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg. And site of one of the most famous stunts in Chicago movie history, from “The Hunter” (1980), when Steve McQueen’s bounty hunter gets involved in a car chase UP the parking garage, which ends when the fugitive’s vehicle winds up in the Chicago River. That’s at least six tickets for moving violations right there.

DIXIE SQUARE MALL

Shuttered mall in south suburban Harvey that was rebuilt as a movie mall and destroyed by fugitive brothers Jake and Elwood and the Illinois State Police in “The Blues Brothers” (1980). “Disco Pants and Haircuts ... This place has got EVERYTHING ... New Oldsmobiles are in early this year ... Pier 1 Imports.”

ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE

Where Dr. Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford) grabbed a green plastic bowler and blended in with Roland Burris and other Chicago dignitaries to elude the feds in the 1993 version of “The Fugitive.” The psychological thriller “Blink” starring Chicago native Aidan Quinn also shot a scene during the very same parade.

THE GREEN MILL

Legendary jazz club and a popular filming site, from “Next of Kin” (1989) to “V.I. Warshawski” (1991) to “Soul Food” (1997) to “High Fidelity” (2000), to name just a few. Most famously featured in the Michael Mann classic “Thief” (1981), as James Caan’s Frank blows up the bar in the climactic sequence. (Not really. He didn’t really blow it up. The Green Mill is still there.)

EMMIT’S IRISH PUB

This River West bar at the Grand-Halsted-Milwaukee triangle served as the location for an early scene in “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001) in which George Clooney’s Danny Ocean recruits Matt Damon’s pickpocket Linus to step up his game and join his team in Las Vegas. Emmit’s (and/or the previous bar in the same spot, O’Sullivan’s) has also been the site of filming on “Ocean’s Twelve,” “Backdraft,” “Only the Lonely,” “U.S. Marshals,” “The Untouchables” and “Uncle Buck.”