Editing Northbrook, Illinois (section)

===Movies and filming===
Director [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]], a native of Northbrook, used the fictional town of "Shermer" as a setting for several of his films.<ref name="HughesBrekClub"/> David Kamp of ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' said "Hughes's Shermer was partly Northbrook and partly a composite of all the [[North Shore (Chicago)|North Shore]]'s towns and neighborhoods—and, by extension, all the different milieus that existed in American suburbia" and that Shermer "was at once an Everytown for every teen and an explicit homage to Hughes's home turf, the North Shore suburbs above Chicago". Hughes and his family moved to Northbrook in 1962, and Hughes attended [[Glenbrook North High School]].<ref name="bardofyouth">{{cite news | first=David | last=Kamp | title= Sweet Bard of Youth | date=March 2010 | url =https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/03/john-hughes-201003?printable=true&currentPage=5 | magazine =Vanity Fair | access-date = February 20, 2010 }}</ref>

Some exterior shots of Glenbrook North High School were used in the films ''[[The Breakfast Club]]''<ref>Gora, Susannah (2010). ''You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried''. Three Rivers Press. p. 58</ref> and ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]]''. Northbrook is notable for being home to the "Save Ferris" water tower featured in the movie, which inspired the name of the synonymous [[Save Ferris|band]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20200619/x201csave-ferrisx201d-water-tower-getting-new-paint|title="Save Ferris" water tower getting new paint|website=Dailyherald.com|date=June 19, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://saveferris.com/|title=Save Ferris|website=Daveferris.com|access-date=February 2, 2022}}</ref>