Chicago's Downtown 'Transformed' Into Movie Lot
EXPLOSIVE MOVIE-MAKING
Chicago's Downtown 'Transformed' Into Movie Lot
BOMBS EXPLODED IN DOWNTOWN CHICAGO OVER the weekend, upending streets and cars and sending pedestrians running for their lives.
Not to worry, just the magic of moviemaking as Michael Bay's Transformers 3 is filmed.
Set crews created elaborate scenes of apocalyptic destruction. The noise from the explosions and gunfire rattled windows at a nearby Corner Bakery; signs posted around the shoot's informed passersby to "not be alarmed." Fans flocked to the scene to be able to get a look at Shia LeBeouf and new young thang Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as they battled invisible robots.
Filming will take place through August 1, according to the Chicago Tribune, which is covering the movie-making closer than a city council meeting.
Stars Shia LeBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley flee invisible 'bots. Shooting is taking place just a few miles south of where LeBeouf was arrested for refusing to leave a Walgreens in 2007.
An explosion on Michigan Avenue creates a fireball during filming July 17, 2010. The Chicago Tribune says Mayor Daley was on site to see his beloved city blown up. 
Lasalle Street is scene of devastation during filming July 11.
Crowds snap pictures of a helicopter during a scene taped July 10.
Aerial view of Michigan Ave. where filming took place over the weekend. This is the same intersection where Oprah filmed her 24th season debut last September.
