“Home Alone,” the family comedy starring Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci, was released on this day in 1990. The movie was filmed in locations throughout Chicagoland, including several airport scenes shot at O’Hare Airport and in neighborhoods in Winnetka where the fictional McCallister family lived.

While only costing $18 million to make, the film grossed $17 million in its opening weekend alone. The movie would go on to gross nearly $300 million in the United States and become an iconic 1990s movie to an entire generation.

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