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2. Paradise Theatre (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   1956–1958. Architect. John Eberson. Builder. Balaban and Katz. The Paradise Theatre was a movie palace located in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood. Its address was 231 N. Crawford Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. It was near the intersection of West Madison Street and Crawford (now Pulaski Road) in the West Garfield Park area of Chicago's ...

3. Uptown Theatre (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   November 20, 1986. Designated CL. October 2, 1991. Uptown Theatre (also known as Balaban and Katz Uptown Theatre) is a currently closed movie palace and concert venue located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Designed by Rapp and Rapp and built by Paschen Bros. contractors, it is one of the many movie palaces built by the Balaban ...

4. Ramova Theater - Wikipedia

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   Ramova Theater. The Ramova Theater is a historic movie theater at 3508-3518 South Halsted Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Businessman Jokūbas Maskoliūnas, one of the many Lithuanian immigrants who settled in Bridgeport in the early twentieth century, built the theater in 1929. The theater opened with 1,300 seats ...

5. Chicago Theatre - Wikipedia

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   January 28, 1983. The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz (B&K) group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban, his brother Barney Balaban and ...

6. Copernicus Center (Chicago, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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   The Copernicus Center (formerly Gateway Theatre) is a 1,852-seat former movie palace that is now part of the Copernicus Center in the Jefferson Park community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The Copernicus Center is located at 5216 W. Lawrence Avenue. The former Gateway Theater was designed by architect Mason Rapp of ...

7. List of theaters in Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Apollo Theater Chicago [55] Arie Crown Theatre [56] Auditorium Theatre [57] Briar Street Theater [58] Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (formerly Drury Lane Water Tower Place) [59] Cadillac Palace Theatre [60] Chicago Theatre [61] CIBC Theatre (formerly The Shubert Theatre) [62] Congress Theater [63] Greenhouse Theater Center [64] Harris ...

8. Nederlander Theatre (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   The Oriental Theater opened in 1926 as one of many ornate movie palaces built in Chicago during the 1920s by the firm Rapp and Rapp. In addition to movies, it occasionally showed live acts. The Oriental continued to be a vital part of Chicago's theater district into the 1960s, but patronage declined in the 1970s.

9. Biograph Theater - Wikipedia

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   Designated CL. March 28, 2001. The Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions. It gained early notoriety as the location where bank robber John Dillinger was leaving when he was shot down by FBI agents, after he watched a gangster ...