Editing Buckingham Fountain (section)

== In popular culture ==
[[File:Buckinghamfountain3g05158u.jpg|thumb|Buckingham Fountain on a 1939 [[Works Progress Administration]] poster]]

===Entertainment===
Buckingham Fountain was featured in the title sequences of TV shows ''[[Married... with Children]]'' and ''[[Crime Story (American TV series)|Crime Story]]''.<ref name="d360" /> 

The fountain was the starting point for the television show ''[[The Amazing Race 6]]'' in 2004 and was featured in a task 13 years later on ''[[The Amazing Race 29]]''.<ref name="d360" /><ref>{{cite news| url=https://ew.com/recap/the-amazing-race-season-29-finale/| title=The Amazing Race finale recap: 'We're Going to Victory Lane'| magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]| last=Ray| first=Lincee| date=June 1, 2007| access-date=December 31, 2019| archive-date=December 27, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227014031/https://ew.com/recap/the-amazing-race-season-29-finale/| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.capitalgazette.com/ct-the-amazing-race-filming-in-chicago-20160703-story.html| title='The Amazing Race' films Season 29 in Chicago| newspaper=Capital Gazette| location=Annapolis, Md.| first=Tracy| last=Swartz| date=July 3, 2016| access-date=December 31, 2019| archive-date=December 31, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231194312/https://www.capitalgazette.com/ct-the-amazing-race-filming-in-chicago-20160703-story.html| url-status=dead}}</ref>

Buckingham Fountain features in the 1949 [[film noir]] film [[Undertow (1949 film)|Undertow]], as the protagonist's meeting place. 

===Confusion with Route 66===
Buckingham Fountain is often incorrectly identified as the eastern terminus of historic [[U.S. Route 66]] (the road west to Southern California), but, although near, it was not the end point of that historic route. The original eastern terminus was nearby at the intersection of Jackson Boulevard and [[Michigan Avenue (Chicago)|Michigan Avenue]] in downtown [[Chicago]]. In a later alignment, the terminus was moved east several blocks through [[Grant Park (Chicago)|Grant Park]] to the intersection with [[Lake Shore Drive]] after the latter was designated as [[U.S. Route 41]]. It remained there until the eastern terminus of Interstate 55 was completed at Lake Shore Drive, and then that also became the eastern terminus of Route 66 until I-55 completely replaced the route in Illinois and U.S. 66 was decommissioned (in 1985).<ref name="d360">{{cite web| title=Buckingham Fountain| url=http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/illinois/buckingham-fountain.php| publisher=Destination 360.com| access-date=2008-09-19| archive-date=July 21, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721213623/http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/illinois/chicago/buckingham-fountain| url-status=dead}}</ref>  Nevertheless, many people still associate Buckingham Fountain with the start of Route 66, even though it had not been built yet when the route opened on November 11, 1926 — whereas the [[Fountain of the Great Lakes]] in the South Garden of the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], which has been near the intersection of Jackson and Michigan since 1913, actually preceded Route 66 by 13 years and Buckingham Fountain by 14 years.  Because Jackson is now a one way street going ''east'', the historic commemorative signs for Route 66 now show "End" at Jackson near Michigan, but "Begin" is moved one block north to Adams Street (in front of the Art Institute), which is a one-way going ''west''.