"Wow, this mall has everything!"

Like many people who move to Chicago after growing up elsewhere, a great deal of my initial impressions were framed by The Blues Brothers, since I watched it about once a month on TBS as an impressionable child. One of the more memorable scenes was the car chase through a mall in which Joliet Jake and Elwood ripped through a toy store and upended an Orange Julius stand. That mall is the Dixie Square Mall, long abandoned out in Harvey, Illinois, which is about 20 miles south of the Loop. Bldg Blog has a great post on (more recent) art using the decaying structure as a muse.