In Popular Culture
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Film and television series have used UIC for filming locations:
- The 2006 movie Stranger than Fiction used classrooms and offices.
- Swimfan was shot, partially, at the school's competition swimming pools
- The movie Primal Fear featured UIC's baseball field, Les Miller Field.
- The main character in My Big Fat Greek Wedding attends classes at UIC, and the film is set in Greektown, adjacent to East Campus. (However, the film was actually shot at Truman College in Chicago.)
- In the horror film Candyman, the main character is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The opening credits include an aerial shot of the original Walter Netsch-designed East Campus, before the late 1990s renovations.
- The movie Mahogany was filmed, in part, on the east campus of UIC.
- Maxwell Street, in what is now the South Campus, was a filming location for both The Blues Brothers and Child's Play.
- TV shows such as Early Edition and ER have used the UIC Medical Center for scenes. Ironically, although ER was set in Chicago and predominantly filmed at the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, the courtyard within the UIC College of Medicine doubled for the University of Michigan in the episode "One for the Road".
- The UIC police station (at the time, still a station of the Chicago Police rather than the university) was shown in the establishing shots for the award-winning TV show Hill Street Blues.
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