Nina Metz: 1986′s Chicago-shot ‘Running Scared’ is a time capsule of the Thompson Center
CHICAGO — “Helmut Jahn’s State of Illinois Center is the most cerebral, the most abstract, yet easily the most spectacular building ever constructed in the Loop,” Tribune architecture critic Paul Gapp wrote when it opened in 1985.
A year later, it would be featured prominently in “Running Scared,” the 1986 buddy cop action comedy starring Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines. The movie’s climax takes place in the atrium, and it is a cinematic love letter to the building’s
