Walking into Lost Eras in Rogers Park might feel like stepping onto a film set, and in many ways, it is. The overflowing antique shop, crammed with old telephones, fedoras, uranium glassware, and taxidermy, has quietly become a go-to destination for Hollywood movie and television productions shooting in Illinois.

Owner Charlotte Walters can rattle off treasures with cinematic past lives: a rug once soaked in fake blood for Sean Connery’s death scene in “The Untouchables”; studio lights salvaged from Oprah’s Harpo Studios; and even a pair of shoes worn by a background actor in “True Lies.” Hanging in plain sight, near a taxidermic shark, is a “Public Enemies” poster featuring Johnny Depp in an outfit sourced straight from her shop. “I was honored,” Walters said in an interview with WBE

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