Movies Set in Illinois in the 1980s

Kinora's catalogue lists 15 films set in Illinois in the 1980s, spanning 1980–2000. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 1992

  A League of Their Own

  Chicago · Rockford · Racine · Cooperstown — 1940s · 1980s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Penny Marshall
• 1980

  Airplane!

  Los Angeles · Chicago — 1980s
  dir. Jim Abrahams
• 1988

  Child's Play

  Chicago — 1980s
  Urbandir. Tom Holland
• 1986

  Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  Chicago — 1980s
  Urban · Suburbandir. John Hughes
• 1986

  Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

  Chicago — 1980s
  Urbandir. John McNaughton
• 2000

  High Fidelity

  Chicago — 1980s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Stephen Frears
• 1989

  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

  Chicago — 1980s
  Suburbandir. Jeremiah S. Chechik
• 1980

  Ordinary People

  Chicago — 1980s
  Suburbandir. Robert Redford
• 1987

  Planes, Trains and Automobiles

  Wichita · St. Louis · Chicago · New York City — 1980s
  Urban · Ruraldir. John Hughes
• 1986

  Pretty in Pink

  Illinois — 1980s
  Suburbandir. Howard Deutch
• 1983

  Risky Business

  Chicago — 1980s
  Suburbandir. Paul Brickman
• 1984

  Sixteen Candles

  Chicago — 1980s
  Suburbandir. John Hughes
• 1980

  The Blues Brothers

  Chicago — 1980s
  Urbandir. John Landis
• 1985

  The Breakfast Club

  Illinois — 1980s
  Suburbandir. John Hughes
• 1981

  Thief

  Chicago · Los Angeles — 1980s
  Urbandir. Michael Mann