Knickpoint Ventures held a topping-off ceremony Monday for The Fields Studios, what the company bills as Chicago’s first purpose-built film studio, at the former Marshall Field’s warehouse campus on the Northwest Side.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.A vacant lot on the south campus of the old Marshall Field’s warehouse is set to be converted into film studio space for the Fields Studios near the corner of Diversey Avenue and Pulaski Road in Chicago May 19, 2023. The Field's warehouse building is in the background.
Vacant land just south of the old Marshall Field’s warehouse, foreground, is set to be converted into film studio space for the Fields Studios campus near the corner of Diversey Avenue and Pulaski Road in Chicago on May 19, 2023. FX’s hit “The Bear,” among many others, and kick-started The Fields Studios, as well as other studios set to open in the next few years.
State officials said film production expenditures in Illinois hit nearly $700 million in 2022, a new record and up from $560 million in 2019, resulting in more than 15,000 jobs. In March, Pritzker extended the state’s film production tax credit, created in 2008, until 2033.
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