This plot description is much superiorcomments   Joliet Jake Blues is released from the Joliet Correctional Center after serving three years of a prison sentence after being convicted of armed robbery Jake is irritated at being picked up by his brother Elwood in a battered former Mt Prospect Illinois police car instead of the Cadillac The Blues Brothers used to own   The Blues Brothers visit their childhood home a Roman Catholic orphanage Saint HelenoftheBlessedShroud Orphanage From Sister Mary Stigmata Kathleen Freeman The Blues Brothers learn that a property tax lien on the orphanage property will be foreclosed upon unless five thousand dollars in property taxes is remitted on its behalf to the county the associated church has elected instead to sell the building to the Board of Education rather than pay the tax assessment At the advice of their childhood mentor Curtis Cab Calloway The Blues Brothers attend an evangelical church service at Triple Rock Baptist Church led by the Reverend Cleophus James James Brown where Jake has an epiphany The Blues Brothers can legitimately raise the funds by reforming their rhythm and blues band The Blues Brothers Band    As The Blues Brothers drive past a doughnut shop and Nelson Funeral Home in the Bluesmobile Elwoods driving alerts two Illinois State Police troopers Trooper Daniel Armand Cerami and Trooper Mount Steven Williams who after pursuing The Blues Brothers into a quiet secluded residential area learn from their incar SCMODS StateCountyMunicipal Offender Data System computer terminal of Elwoods suspended drivers license When Trooper Daniel and Trooper Mount attempt to place Elwood under arrest Elwood speeds off escaping by driving and crashing through with the Illinois State Troopers in pursuit the Dixie Square Mall   After parking the Bluesmobile in an alleyend compartment next to a highvoltage transformer hence the Bluesmobiles remarkable magical abilities and arriving at Elwoods home a hotel for transients The Blues Brothers are mysteriously unharmed from a bazooka attack launched by a mystery woman Carrie Fisher The next morning just as the Illinois State Troopers who attempted to arrest Elwood the previous evening with the help of Parole officer Burton Mercer John Candy as to the true address of the elegant abode of one Elwood Blues because Elwood had falsified his renewal and put down ten sixty West Addison the street address of Wrigley Field attempt to serve an arrest warrant at Elwoods tiny room the mystery woman detonates a bomb that demolishes the building which inadvertently saves The Blue Brothers from another attempted arrest  Elwood proceeds to his straight job on the assembly line at an aerosolcan manufacturer takes several cans from the line and places them in his briefcase and visits the plant manager quitting his job citing a decision to become a priest curiously Elwoods supervisors office is adorned with a US flag and an Illinois state flag suggesting that the aerosolcan manufacturer in an enterprise owned by the government of the State of Illinoisor else simply that Elwoods supervisor thought it would be cool to adorn his office with a US flag and an Illinois flag  Jake and Elwood begin tracking down members of the band Trombonist Tom Bones Malone and the rhythm section of the group Willie Too Big Hall Steve The Colonel Cropper Donald Duck Dunn and Murphy Murph Dunn known as Murph and the Magictones are playing in an empty Holiday Inn lounge The Armada Room and are readily convinced to rejoin The Blues Brothers Band Trumpeter Mister Fabulous Alan Rubin now matre d at a restaurant is more of a challenge to persuade you aint never gonna get em outta those highpayin gigs but Jake and Elwood rudely convince him with some diningroom hijinks En route to meet saxophonist Louis Blue Lou Marini and guitarist Matt Guitar Murphy The Blues Brothers drive through a rally of neoNazis upon whom Jake comments Illinois NazisI hate Illinois Nazis and adding another enemy to the The Blues Brothers growing list of pursuing parties Marini and Murphy are working at the soul food restaurant on Maxwell Street in Calumet City Illinois which Murphy owns with his wife Aretha Franklin Against her advice the two musicians leave and rejoin the band The reunited group obtain new musical instruments and associated equipment from Ray Ray Charles of Rays Music Exchange in Calumet City Illinois on loan pending payment from the proceeds of The Blues Brotherss Bands pending triumphant return  Jake is unable to book a gig in advance a