a television station that all residents are able to access, NCTV Cable Channel 17. The station broadcasts meetings and information about the village. Newspapers Northbrook is served by two newspapers, the Northbrook Star and the Northbrook Herald. The Northbrook Star is a division of the Chicago Tribune, whilst Northbrook Herald is a division of Daily Herald, which is headquartered in Arlington Heights. In the past, the village also housed The Northbrook Tower, a division of 22nd Century Media, which went bankrupt in 2020. Movies and filming Director John Hughes, a native of Northbrook, used the fictional town of "Shermer" as a setting for several of his films. David Kamp of Vanity Fair said "Hughes's Shermer was partly Northbrook and partly a composite of all the North Shore's towns and neighborhoods—and, by extension, all the different milieus that existed in American suburbia" and that Shermer "was at once an Everytown for every teen and an explicit homage to Hughes's home turf, the North Shore suburbs above Chicago." Hughes and his family moved to Northbrook in 1962, and Hughes attended Glenbrook North High School. Some exterior shots of Glenbrook North High School were used in the films The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Northbrook is notable for being home to the "Save Ferris" water tower featured in the movie, which inspired the name of the synonymous band. Radio Northbrook is served by WGBK, a non-commercial station operated by students at Glenbrook North High School and Glenbrook South High School. It broadcasts popular music, local high school sports, and covers local news. Infrastructure Transportation Northbrook is connected to Chicago's transportation network. Roads Interstate Highways: Edens Expressway Tri-State Tollway U.S. Highways: Skokie Highway Milwaukee Avenue Illinois State Routes: Milwaukee Avenue Waukegan Rd Dundee Road Other major roads include: Cherry Lane/Church Street Lake Cook Road Landwehr Road Pfingsten Road Sanders Road Shermer Road Skokie Boulevard Sunset Ridge Road Techny Road Walters Avenue Willow Road 18 roads in Northbrook are named after pioneer settlers: Bach Street, Dehne Road, Happ Road, Holste Road, Huehl Road, Kiest Avenue, Koehling Road, Landwehr Road, Lee Road, Lorenz Drive, Pfingsten Road, Sanders Road, Sherman Drive, Shermer Road, Voltz Road, Walters Avenue, Wessling Drive, and Winkelman Road. Public Transit Northbrook is served by Metra commuter rail. The village is located along the Milwaukee District North Line, which runs from Chicago Union Station to Fox Lake. Northbrook station is located on