What’s up with that?

Q Why is there a giant statue of Jesus dressed in a dead animal skin above South Side hamburger joint Phil’s Kastle?

A Located just east of the 95th Street Bridge, which Jake and Elwood famously jumped their car over in The Blues Brothers, Phil’s is a 50-year-old landmark in the working-class South Chicago neighborhood. While the diner roof’s life-size figure is a dead ringer for Christ (or one of the Geico Cavemen), restaurant manager Christine Ramirez knows the truth: He’s actually Jason, leader of the Argonauts, clad in a toga made from the fabled Golden Fleece. After World War II, she says, the building housed a tavern whose owner installed the hero to please his Greek-mythology-loving daughter. Still, Ramirez says, “A lot of people think it’s Jesus. Three weeks ago some young men stopped their car in front of the building. They were drinking and driving. They saw the statue and said, ‘Jesus Christ!’ ” Fearing the wrath of God, Ramirez says, the men tossed their beers and carefully drove home.