The only building in Chicago with manually operated elevators. Take a ride up, it can be surreal.
The Chicago Cultural Center was the backdrop for several scenes from The Untouchables, including Frank Nitti’s (Billy Drago) dramatic demise at the hand of federal agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Kostner).
Free guided tours of the building are on wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 1:15pm.
The Cultural Centre appears in The Untouchables (1987) as the location of the opera Al Capone attends, the courtroom exterior where Frank Nitti is frisked and the roof from which he is thrown.
