- Sun-Times Media
- Same city, different haircuts
I wasn’t around the last time The Real World filmed in Chicago. In fact, I didn’t even watch that season when it was on television because I was in middle school, and my parents wouldn’t let me watch MTV. So I definitely wasn’t aware of the massive protests that took place in Wicker Park in 2001. Thank goodness for YouTube and the Reader archive; 13 years later I was able to relive the moments when people stopped being polite and started getting real.
- Richard A. Chapman/Sun-Times Media
- The new cast members are really into pointing.
I had one brief encounter with the cast while they were filming. A group of them stumbled their way out of River North’s Social Twenty Five as I was on my way in (against my better judgement). The hoard of cameras was disorienting, and I wouldn’t have even connected the dots except that I recognized a friend of mine who was on the crew. It seemed a couple of the cast members had gotten into a huge fight in the bar and were being directed elsewhere. It was 10 PM on a Friday.
