where does mean girls take place

“Mean Girls” takes place in the suburban American city of Evanston, Illinois , centered around the fictional North Shore High School.

Main setting

• The story is explicitly set in Evanston, a suburb just north of Chicago, which fits the film’s mix of residential neighborhoods, malls, and commuter culture.

• North Shore High School itself is fictional, but it is portrayed as a typical Midwestern public high school where cliques and social hierarchies dominate student life.

Where it was filmed (fun extra)

• Although the plot is set in Illinois, most of the 2004 movie was actually filmed in and around Toronto, Canada, with several real schools and city spots standing in for Evanston locations.

• The 2024 musical movie version also keeps the story set in Evanston, Illinois, even though its school scenes were filmed at a former school in Middletown Township, New Jersey.

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