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Can you do 'Ferris Bueller' IRL?

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Sep 16, 2022
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  • Can you actually do Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in one day?… Ferris, Cameron, and Sloane go to Sears Tower, the Chicago Board of Trade, have a fancy French lunch, go to a Cubs game, the Art Institute, the Von Steuben Day parade and the beach, then Ferris runs on foot through his suburb to get home by 6 p.m. Is it physically possible to squeeze all that into one day? Washington Post writer Leigh Giangreco decided to find out! Spoiler alert: Ferris likely wouldn’t have had time to run home, but Giangreco and company were able to do everything else! Bow bow chick chicka chicka. 👏

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