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Several films have used Wacker Drive as a setting. The 1980 film, The Blues Brothers made a point of identifying the street. The climactic high-speed chase scene occurs along various downtown streets (filmed on Sundays with the downtown cordoned off). When the brothers take the Bluesmobile down the ramp to the express level, Elwood mentions the street by name: "Well, this is definitely Lower Wacker Drive. If my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable Richard J. Daley Plaza." Jake: "That's where they've got that Picasso." Elwood: "Yep."
In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Wacker Drive is seen in a number of scenes. Much of the street appears destroyed with debris from nearby buildings and destroyed cars because of the Decepticons assault on the city. Much of the battle takes place on Wacker Drive with the Autobots and United States Military fighting and eventually defeating the Decepticons.
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