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  2. Grand 1894 Opera House - Wikipedia

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    In 1894, Henry Greenwall closed his Tremont Opera House at 23rd and Market Streets and raised money for the construction of a new opera house on Post Office Street. [4] In 1894, Henry Greenwall (often spelled Greenwald) raised $100,000 for construction of The Grand Opera House and Hotel in Galveston .

  3. Chicago Theatre - Wikipedia

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    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 partner Sam Katz. [ 5 ]

  4. Theater in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Illinois Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, c.1909. The young settlement of Chicago in 1834 saw its first commercial production by a fire eater and ventriloquist, Mr. Brown. In 1837, the first resident theater company, the short-lived Chicago Theater, opened in the Sauganash Hotel.

  5. List of theaters in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Apollo Theater Chicago [54] Arie Crown Theatre [55] Auditorium Theatre [56] Briar Street Theater [57] Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place (formerly Drury Lane Water Tower Place) [58] Bughouse Theater; Cadillac Palace Theatre [59] Chicago Theatre [60] CIBC Theatre (formerly The Shubert Theatre) [61] Congress Theater [62] Greenhouse Theater ...

  6. Sauganash Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The building briefly served as Chicago's first theater, [1] and hosted the first Chicago Theatre Company in November 1837 in an abandoned dining room. [14] [15] By 1839, it returned to service as a hotel, [8] but was destroyed by fire in 1851, [1] and subsequently torn down. [16] The Wigwam was built in its place nine years later. [17]

  7. Goodman Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Goodman was founded in 1925 as a tribute to the Chicago playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, who died in the Great Influenza Pandemic in 1918. The theater was funded by Goodman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William O. Goodman, who donated $250,000 to the Art Institute of Chicago to establish a professional repertory company and a school of drama at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [2]

  8. CIBC Theatre - Wikipedia

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    CIBC Theatre is a performing arts theater located at 18 West Monroe Street in the Loop area of downtown Chicago. It is operated by Broadway In Chicago , part of the Nederlander Organization . Opened in 1906 as the Majestic Theatre , [ 1 ] it currently seats 1,800 and for many years has presented Broadway shows.

  9. Jay Pritzker Pavilion - Wikipedia

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    The naming of Jay Pritzker Pavilion was a cause for protests. The new pavilion was built as a replacement for Grant Park's decades-old Petrillo Music Shell, which had a long history of hosting free music events and was named after James C. Petrillo, a labor union leader who started free concerts in Grant Park. When the original bandshell was ...