The first main stop the crew makes is at the Sears Tower. Ferris makes note that the 1,451-foot tower was the tallest in the world. And indeed, the Sears was the tallest building in the world throughout the ’80s and well into the ’90s, until the Petronas Towers in Malaysia were completed in 1996.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Year
1986

Director
John Hughes

Storyline:
High school student Ferris Bueller wants a day off from school and he’s developed an incredibly sophisticated plan to pull it off. He talks his friend Cameron into taking his father’s prized Ferrari and with his girlfriend Sloane head into Chicago for the day. While they are taking in what the city has to offer school principal Ed Rooney is convinced that Ferris is, not for the first time, playing hooky for the day and is hell bent to catch him out. Ferris has anticipated that, much to Rooney’s chagrin.

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