One thing I love about summer is visiting Chicago! I never know what I will see in the city. This summer, early on a Sunday morning while walking to the starting line of the Rock and Roll Marathon, we stumbled upon the set of the Transformers 3 movie. What an amazing undertaking! They closed down about 2 blocks of upper Wacker Drive and brought in lots of destruction for what looked like a post-battle set. It appeared that the crew was setting up for shooting as members were moving props into place. There was smoke coming from different areas of the set like from some of the cars that were upside down and on their sides. There was "damage" to the side of one of the buildings. It looked like something large had hit it about 2-3 stories up. They must have worked all night to build up this scene as this street was open the evening before when we arrived in the city.
About a block away after we had passed the scene, we saw what looked like extras in uniforms and other "official" looking costumes. They appeared to be heading to the set with their coffee and breakfast pastries.
All this work for what will probably be 5 minutes in the actual movie. It was amazing to see, and, sadly, they were all done for the day when we returned from the race that afternoon. Oh well, surprises that we get to see when we visit Chicago in the summer!
(Updated 7/27/25)
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