Editing Blue Island, Illinois (section)

=== Television and film ===
[[File:United Breweries 1911.jpg|thumb|right|Layout of the United Breweries facilities]]
This layout is from a 1911 Sanborn map<ref>{{cite book |title= Sanborn Map Company – Insurance Maps of Chicago, Illinois, Volume Eleven |year= 1911|publisher= The Sanborn Map Company|location= New York|page= sheet 27 }}</ref> Founded in 1856 as the Busch and Brandt brewery<ref name="The First Hundred Years – 1835–1935"/>{{rp|48}} and consolidated with United Breweries in 1898,<ref>{{cite news | title=United Breweries' Bond In – Isador Baumgarth Gives Formal Notice of the Consolidation of Thirteen Concerns| newspaper=Chicago Daily Tribune|date=August 23, 1898| pages=3}}</ref> this was one of four such establishments that operated in Blue Island for many years. The long narrow building marked "Stable in Bst" was afterwards owned by the Klein Elevator Co., who used it until c.1990, at which time it was demolished.

Because of its picturesque nature, Blue Island has been used for [[Filming location|location shots]] in several movies and television series:
* Scenes from the 1987 film ''[[Light of Day]]'', starring [[Michael J. Fox]], were filmed there, including the scenes at the arcade "The Video Zone," which. for many years after filming was completed, served as a Big Boy submarine sandwich shop until it was demolished in June 2009.
* Scenes from the 2006 [[Paramount Pictures]] film ''[[Flags of Our Fathers (film)|Flags of Our Fathers]]'', directed by [[Clint Eastwood]], were filmed in Blue Island.
* Scenes from the 2008 [[Universal Pictures|Universal Studios]] film ''[[The Express: The Ernie Davis Story]]'', the story of [[Ernie Davis]], who was the first black football player to win the [[Heisman Trophy]], were also filmed here.
* Scenes from the 2008 film [[The Lucky Ones (film)|''The Lucky Ones'']] were filmed in Blue Island.
* On October 21, 2010, leaves were plucked from trees and artificial snow fell as [[New Line Cinema]] prepared to film exterior shots for the film ''[[The Rite (2011 film)|The Rite]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title = Movie Filming in Blue Island! | publisher = The City of Blue Island | date = October 20, 2010 | url = http://www.blueisland.org/category/news/page/2/ | access-date =2011-02-06}}</ref>

Blue Island also appeared regularly in the television show ''[[Cupid (TV series)|Cupid]]'', and two episodes of the TV series ''[[Early Edition]]'' were filmed there.