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So, they're filming near my school (as they did for the previous film) at the Old Chicago Post Office on Van Buren street near the Chicago River (remember those bridge scenes in the first movie?).
There are filming bulletins posted up around saying the project is entitled RFK "Rory's Firs Kiss". Rory is the name of the director's, Christopher Nolan, son.
The Post Office is transformed into Gotham City National Bank with an extension added on for the Joker's grand entrance crashing into the building.
The scene entails a bank robbery by the Joker and three henchmen. Batman swoops in with a grand entrance and a car chase entails.
This will be the opening scene for the movie.

The following photos are taken through various sources, I don't dare to take my camera as the security will confiscate your camera if they catch you. I've been to the set twice: when they were doing the actual bank robbery scene in the late evening and at midnight when they had Batman (Christian Bale) gliding around in the air on wires; his cape is huge in real life. When I was there that one day for the robbery scene, they did practice runs from 3pmish to about 5pmish and started filming between 6-9pm.

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(Heath Ledger as the Joker)

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(The extension. There's an open gap for the doors. My guess is there are going to put in CGI revolving doors later)

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(Ledger is wearing a mask too with his henchmen, though he has the green slick hair and white face paint when walking around during breaks, but the set security does a good job of hiding transporting him around without anyone seeing)

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