Film Director John Hughes was THE chronicler of teenage experience back in the 80's, and probably stands out amongst directors of any era when it comes to credible portrayals of adolescence in the movies. Maybe Hughes did such a good job representing teenagers because he was so close to his own high school experiences. In fact, he lets it show in the choice of geographical settings for many of his best known films. Several of his films are set in the area of the country (even in the same neighborhoods) that John Hughes lived in during high school. As with most movie productions, different scenes for the same movie ended being shot in different places, but one U.S. city has always been closer to the center of the John Hughes universe than any other. The locations and settings for such Hughes classics as The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Home Alone, Planes Trains & Automobiles, She's Having A Baby, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off were in the suburbs and towns that surround it, and in the art of the city itself. So what city are we talking about?

Bonus Question: Actual high schools were used as settings in many of Hughes' films, and often times more than one high school was actually used in the film to represent the fictitious school in the story. Which two John Hughes films from the 80's used the same two high schools for shooting interior and/or exterior scenes that appeared in those films? (I anticipate a fair amount of debate on this one...)