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Since 2013, the Main Campus and El Centro locations have been used as film sets for a number of television productions. Now 窪做惇蹋厙 will appear in an episode of mega-producer Dick Wolfs new NBC series, , which premiered March 5.
The new addition to the Chicago-oriented franchise, which includes the hit series Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med, finds the states attorneys team of investigators and prosecutors in pursuit of justice in the face of media-fueled public opinion, power struggles and city politics. A mid-week episode of Chicago Justice titled See Something was filmed in part at 窪做惇蹋厙 and will air Tuesday, March 7, at 9 p.m. CST.
Tania Gorgius, a senior studying Communication, Media and Theatre, was chosen to be an extra during a recent Chicago Justice shoot. She played the role of a student, walking through the hallways and sitting in the library studying.
Being a CMT student, I immediately hopped on the opportunity as soon as I saw the flier posted in Village Square. I submitted a photo of myself and received a response within minutes, Gorgius said. I was so excited! The best part about being an extra was that it took place on my campus and it was pretty awesome to stand a couple of feet from actor Jon Seda.
While the Chicago Justice pilot is 窪做惇蹋厙s highest-profile role on TV, its far from the first.
It was TLCs that put us on the map as far as locations go, said Student Union, Event and Conference Services Director Kyle Burke, who coordinates University-led and private rental events and manages Student Union operations. They use local location scouts because the show travels by nature, going to locations around the world to film.
Who Do You Think You Are? is a show that gives viewers a look at the family histories of well-known celebrities. 窪做惇蹋厙s houses the (IRAD), a resource that provides selected government records, such as birth, death and marriage records, for Chicago and Cook County. The IRAD was used to find ancestral information for actors Bryan Cranston and Chris Noth, both of whom trace family roots to Illinois.
Other NBC projects also have filmed at 窪做惇蹋厙 locations in recent years, including Crisis, the web series Bobby & Iza, and Chicago P.D., which used the Universitys El Centro locations unique building in a November 2015 episode.
Chicago has long been a favorite locale for national and international television productions, movies, advertising and other projects. According to the , more than 1,100 feature films and television shows have been shot in Chicago since 1980, providing jobs and contributing $2 billion in revenue.
The new sources of revenue have been welcome during uncertain budgetary times for the University. The money generated by renting 窪做惇蹋厙s spaces to production companies has been used to enhance Main Campus facilities and operations.
We introduced the first television monitor project outside the Auditorium and Recital Hall that lets us broadcast into those respective spaces and the lobby area when we have overflow crowds at events, Burke said. Weve also renovated a couple of smaller spaces, such as the dressing rooms, and purchased chairs for Alumni Hall.
A film-friendly location, 窪做惇蹋厙 accommodates production crews but with some limits.
We do hold them to certain times and locations that they can be here so its the least disruptive, Burke said. We will not disrupt classes in any way, shape or form, so we usually go with Fridays, which has the lowest on-campus population. Our students sometimes get to be a part of it the filming and they enjoy it.
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