The vast and disused building, which also stood in for the exterior of ‘Gotham Police Department’, occupies two city blocks – with the Congress Parkway running straight through the middle. ▶ The opening robbery of ‘Gotham National Bank’ by the Joker ( Heath Ledger), and his band of disposable clowns, is the old Chicago Post Office, 404 West Harrison – though the exterior seen is the northern corner at West Van Buren Street and Canal Street, where a fake extension was built on the adjoining vacant lot. The Dark Knight film location: the Joker’s crew robs ‘Gotham National Bank’: Chicago Post Office Building, West Van Buren Street, Chicago Memories of Adam West and Cesar Romero’s Sixties hi-jinks are banished completely as the mood shifts from dark to downright grim.Īs the tone changes, so ‘Gotham’ morphs from urban Gothic to sinister corporate sheen – and this time it’s mostly Chicago. The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to Batman Begins, expands Batman’s universe with plenty of real locations in Chicago, Hong Kong and London. ▶ Farmiloe Building, 28-36 St John Street, Clerkenwell, EC1 ( Gotham City Police Station, interior).▶ Criterion Restaurant, 224 Piccadilly, W1 ( Bruce Wayne's restaurant).▶ Trump Tower, 401 North Wabash Avenue ( final face-off with Joker).▶ Navy Pier, 600 East Grand Avenue ( evacuation of Gotham City).▶ Twin Anchors, 1665 North Sedgwick Street, Old Town ( Dent turns up as bartender).▶ Lake Street, btw Upper Wacker Drive and State Street ( Lamborghini chase).▶ 401 North Cicero Avenue ( site of Gotham General Hospital).▶ South La Salle Street ( truck flipped over).▶ Millennium Park Metra Station ( emergence of the Batpod).▶ Willis Tower, 233 South Wacker Drive ( Dark Knight looks down on the city).▶ Wyndham Grand, 71 East Wacker Drive ( Bruce Wayne's penthouse).▶ Illinois Center Buildings, 111 East Wacker Drive ( Harvey Dent fundraiser).▶ The Berghoff, 17 West Adams Street ( Maroni arrested).▶ Chicago Theatre, 175 North State Street ( Harvey Dent and Rachel Dawes at the opera).▶ West Building, McCormick Place, 2301 South Indiana Avenue ( Wayne Enterprises Applied Science Division).▶ IBM Building, 330 North Wabash Avenue ( Wayne Enterprises boardroom).▶ Richard J Daley Center, Daley Plaza, Washington Street ( Wayne Enterprises HQ).▶ Parking Garage, 200 West Randolph Street ( Scarecrow arrested).▶ Chicago Post Office, 404 West Harrison Street ( opening robbery).

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