Ferris Bueller’s Day Off location: Ferris Bueller’s ‘Chicago’ home: Country Club Drive, Long Beach, Los Angeles. Most of the locations for slacker classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off can be found around Chicago, of course – though not all of them. Like many John Hughes films, it’s set in the fictitious Illinois town of ‘Shermer’ (Shermerville was the name of Hughes’ neighbourhood of Northbrook until 1923).