Calumet Fisheries

This guide to Calumet Fisheries in Chicago centers on the summer of nineteen seventy-nine, when a film crew arrived to shoot the drawbridge jump for The Blues Brothers and ate here for three days while pointing their camera at a different smokehouse across the water. You'll hear about the shack's own run since nineteen twenty-eight, the family that bought it in nineteen forty-eight, and the wood-smoking method that has barely changed since. Order at the walk-up window and eat by the water, the way the film crew did between takes.