"The Breakfast Club" was shot inside Des Plaines' Maine North High School. The school itself closed in 1981. (I came close to student teaching here in 1973, but ended up in nearby Maine West High School.) It opened in 1970 so was just used for 11 years.
Occupying the building now is an Illinois State Police district office, an Illinois Lottery prize center, a Cook County 911 Center and assorted other state offices. The building is painted gray.
Ernie Scarpelli, building manager, gave a tour. The hallways through which the cast sprinted are now an institutional yellow and the lockers are gone. In the basement, in a glass case, is a "Breakfast Club" poster. he says he gets about 30 people a year wanting to tour the building, but tells them to just take a picture of the exterior of the building.
The school was also used in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" movie of 1986.
--DaCoot
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