Editing Park Ridge, Illinois (section)

===In film===
*The 1980 film ''[[The Blues Brothers (film)|The Blues Brothers]]'' had some scenes filmed in Park Ridge, including the scene in which the brothers are first pulled over by the state police and the beginning of the subsequent chase. The Nelson Funeral Home and Shell gas station which the brothers drive past as the police pull out to intercept them are still in business at the intersection of Talcott and Cumberland avenues. The brothers are pulled over at the intersection of Cumberland and Gillick. As the chase progresses, a trooper radios that the chase is "proceeding on Courtland Avenue"; the subsequent scene in which the Blues Brothers and the police spin out in a three-way intersection occurs at the intersection of Devon Avenue, Talcott Road, and Courtland Avenue.<ref>[http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/bluesbros.html "Blues Brothers location guide"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080824003603/http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/b/bluesbros.html |date=August 24, 2008 }}, Movie-locations.com, Retrieved August 12, 2008</ref><ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/locations "Filming locations for ''The Blues Brothers''"], [[IMDb]]</ref><ref>Reardon, Patrick T. (January 29, 2008), [http://www.dailypress.com/topic/mmx-0129movie_scenesjan29,0,7337785.story?page=2 "Lost Chicago Found on Film"]{{Dead link|date=March 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, p. 2, ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', Retrieved August 12, 2008</ref><ref>''The Blues Brothers: 25th Anniversary Edition'', 2005, scene 4</ref>
*In the 1990 film ''[[Home Alone]]'', Buzz McCallister wears a [[Maine South High School]] letterman's jacket.