The “Empire” TV show picked a very special location for one of its scenes filmed this morning in Chicago: The same location as the bogus hate crime attack on the now-bounced star of the show, Jussie Smollett:

Looks like @JussieSmollett 's colleagues are giving Chicago a big, fat troll this morning. @EMPIREonF0X is currently filming at the scene of his fake hate crime attack. Photo via follower's DM. pic.twitter.com/iexqWcYuz8 — CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) August 13, 2019

And we are “today’s years old” when we found out that they use Chicago as a backdrop for NYC:

Got these shots of them setting up this morning ? pic.twitter.com/6X7D2QCvi4 — Mike Copenhaver (@mike_copenhaver) August 13, 2019

This is a very popular corner for acting?

Will be the first time any acting on that corner has actually been recorded. If at first you don’t succeed… (Note I stole this joke from someone who DM’d it to me;) https://t.co/hKwsml7ZPt — Filming in Chicago (@filming_chicago) August 13, 2019

Ha!

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