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== Early life and education == Hughes was born on February 18, 1950, in [[Lansing, Michigan]], to Marion Crawford, who volunteered in charity work, and John Hughes Sr., who worked in sales.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/tucson/obituary.aspx?n=john-w-hughes&pid=160077308&fhid=2499 |title=John W. HUGHES' Obituary on Arizona Daily Star |website=Arizona Daily Star}}</ref> He was the only boy, and had three sisters. He spent the first twelve years of his life in [[Grosse Pointe, Michigan]], where he was a fan of [[Detroit Red Wings]] [[Winger (ice hockey)|right winger]] [[Gordie Howe]].<ref name="bardofyouth"/> One of Howe's #9 jerseys, sent by Howe himself,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Q&A with Gordie Howe |date=May 5, 2009 |url=https://www.si.com/more-sports/2009/05/15/gordie-howe |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |first=Arash |last=Markazi |access-date=December 11, 2017 |archive-date=January 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170114115820/http://www.si.com/more-sports/2009/05/15/gordie-howe |url-status=live}}</ref> was later prominently featured in Hughes's 1986 film ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://melmagazine.com/why-cameron-frye-wore-a-gordie-howe-jersey-in-ferris-buellers-day-off-adfc36129fd5 |title=Why Cameron Frye Wore a Gordie Howe Jersey in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' |first=John |last=McDermott |date=June 11, 2016 |journal=MEL Magazine |access-date=July 21, 2017 |archive-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210504022413/https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-cameron-frye-wore-a-gordie-howe-jersey-in-ferris-buellers-day-off |url-status=live}}</ref> Hughes described himself as "kind of quiet":<ref>{{cite news |title=Molly Ringwald Interviews John Hughes |date=Spring 1986 |url=http://www.riverblue.com/hughes/articles/molly17.html |work=Seventeen Magazine |access-date=February 25, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090809144057/http://www.riverblue.com/hughes/articles/molly17.html |archive-date=August 9, 2009| df=mdy-all}}</ref> {{blockquote|I grew up in a neighborhood that was mostly girls and old people. There weren't any boys my age, so I spent a lot of time by myself, imagining things. And every time we would get established somewhere, we would move. Life just started to get good in seventh grade, and then we moved to Chicago. I ended up in a really big high school, and I didn't know anybody. But then [[The Beatles]] came along and changed my whole life. And then [[Bob Dylan]]'s ''[[Bringing It All Back Home]]'' came out and really changed me. Thursday I was one person, and Friday I was another. My heroes were Dylan, [[John Lennon]] and [[Picasso]], because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.}} [[File:John Hughes, 1967 HS Yearbook.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Hughes as a junior at [[Glenbrook North High School]] (1967)]] In 1963, Hughes's family moved to [[Northbrook, Illinois]], a suburb of Chicago. There, his father found work selling roofing materials.<ref name="bardofyouth" /> Hughes attended Grove Middle School, later going on to [[Glenbrook North High School]], which gave him inspiration for the films that eventually made his reputation.<ref>{{cite news |title=When the Losers Ruled in Teenage Movies |author=Michael Joseph Gross |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/09/style/view-when-the-losers-ruled-in-teenage-movies.html?pagewanted=4&src=pm |access-date=July 21, 2010 |page=4 |date=May 9, 2004}}</ref> He met Nancy Ludwig, a cheerleader and his future wife, in high school.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://hazlitt.net/longreads/diamond-and-kiss-women-john-hughes |title=A Diamond and a Kiss: The Women of John Hughes {{!}} Hazlitt |date=July 5, 2016 |work=Hazlitt |access-date=June 17, 2018}}</ref> As a teenager, Hughes turned to movies as an escape. According to childhood friend Jackson Peterson, "His mom and dad criticized him a lot (...) She [Marion] would be critical of what John would want to do".<ref>{{cite book |last=Gora |first=Susannah |title=You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation |date=2011 |publisher=Three Rivers Press |page=14 |isbn=9780307716606 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NxgaVJzdFc8C |access-date=January 28, 2019}}</ref> Hughes was a fan of the Beatles,<ref name="bardofyouth"/> and allegedly knew a lot about movies and the [[Rat Pack]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Gora |first=Susannah |title=You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation |date=2011 |publisher=Three Rivers Press |isbn=9780307716606 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NxgaVJzdFc8C |access-date=28 January 2019}}</ref>
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