Neo Con - in Popular Culture

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  • Owing to the expanding postwar economy and family, ownership began offering tours in 1948. Architecture and design interest groups continue to offer scheduled tours.
  • Movies and TV shows are frequently filmed on the Wells Street Bridge and underneath the elevated tracks on Franklin.
  • Chicago Marathon routes have taken runners past the structure, typically on Wells Street.
  • The Mart hosts the annual Art Chicago activities.
  • In the opening credits of the 1970s television sitcom Good Times, the building is depicted prior to renovation and revitalization.
  • The 1948 film Call Northside 777, was made in Illinois and the Mart is seen from newspaper offices on Wacker Drive.
  • The lobby appeared in the movie The Hudsucker Proxy as the interior of the Hudsucker Company headquarters.
  • In 1956, the eight-minute short subject film The Merchandise Mart used the Mart's name and covered in detail the building's interior and operations.
  • David Letterman once called the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame "the Pez Hall of Fame" because the combination of busts atop the tall vertical pedestals resembled the candy's dispensers.
  • In the 1993 film The Fugitive, the location of Dr. Richard Kimble is pinpointed by the US Marshals when they hear a CTA train conductor announce, "Next stop, Merchandise Mart" in the background of a recorded phone call.
  • The building appears as the Candor faction headquarters in the novel "Insurgent (novel)".

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