DeLorean From Back to the Future Will Be at Stevenson H.S. on October 21, 2015

The future is now.

That’s not just a phrase, but for real this time. Well, actually, just in the movies. One movie. A really good one.

If you haven’t heard by now, Wednesday (October 21, 2015) is the date from “Back to the Future Part II” when main characters Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the future, thus totally throwing off the time-space continuum before restoring it in epic fashion.

Their vehicle? The DeLorean, of course.

But where will the actual DeLorean be on this date Back to the Future trilogy enthusiasts have had circled on their calendar since the movie came out in 1989?

The answer is in the Chicago-area. At Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire.

“Have you ever seen the “Back to the Future” movies? You know, the ones where the Cubs win the World Series? Well, if you’ve ever seen “Back to the Future II,” you might know that Wednesday, October 21, 2015 is the date that Marty McFly set in the time machine to go back to the future. Guess what, Stevenson? The Back to the Future car is coming to Stevenson tomorrow — Wednesday, October 21, 2015,” read a Tuesday morning digest update from the school.

The fancy DeLorean sports car that served as a time machine in the three movies is going to be in the circle drive during all three lunch periods, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The visit was orchestrated by Patrick Fairchild, an art teacher at Stevenson.

“Well, I was painting a mural in Art Club, when I slipped and fell and hit my head on the side of the sink, and when I came to I had a vision......Oh wait, that was from the movie....sorry.,” laughed Fairchild, who clearly has awesome taste in movies.

But the idea actually did form in Art Club.

“We were checking future dates and what we wanted to work on, and when that date came up, my students and I started talking about doing some kind of special project,” he said. “We decided that we might ask Student Activites for some help with it all.”

But - much like how the idea for time travel in the movie came to Doc Brown - then it did “just hit” Fairchild.

“When discussing it with a colleague of mine, Ryan Aronoff, he mentioned that his uncle owned the DeLorean from the Back To Future movies,” Fairchild said. “It really all took off from there with Ryan and me working with Student Activities and Windy City Novelties (Ryan’s uncle’s company) to make it happen.”

Windy City Novelties, located in Vernon Hills, owns the actual vehicle, which is one of a few models used in the actual movie. During Wednesday’s event, they will be giving away glow sticks and other goodies related to the popular trilogy. Students are expected to wear either clothing from the 1950s or “something Future-ish” to school, according to Jim Conrey, public information coordinator for the school.

Conrey, who said it is pretty neat that the school is going to have the car on its day in the sun, admitted he isn’t the biggest Back to the Future fan.

“I saw the first one, not the second,” he said. “The first one was good, but I can’t claim to be a huge fan.”

But, perhaps surprisingly, the students are. The same ones who weren’t even born when it came out in 1989.

“There’s been a certain buzz around school for sure,” he said. “The success of the (Chicago) Cubs and their linkage to the plot of the movie adds to it for sure. But more kids today have seen the movie than you or I would think.”