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Classic Cinemas is the largest Illinois based movie theatre chain. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois , it operates 16 locations with 141 screens in Illinois and Wisconsin under Tivoli Enterprises ownership. [ 1 ]
The Tivoli is a rare large one-screen theatre. Most of these older theatres have been "cut up" in order to offer more screens, but the Tivoli is still intact. The building also includes a residential hotel, a bowling alley, and some other store fronts. Owned by Classic Cinemas since 1976, the theatre has an old look but new equipment. [2]
Wehrenberg's Cinema Four Center in St. Charles was the first multiplex in the St. Louis area. In the late 1980s and into the 1990s, the circuit started building megaplexes of ten or more screens. Wehrenberg also expanded outside the St. Louis area. New theaters opened their doors to guests in Springfield, Osage Beach and Cape Girardeau, MO.
When Willis Johnson got into the movie theater business, “old downtown theaters were out of favor,” remembered son Chris Johnson on Friday. The mall was king, and shoebox multiplexes of zero ...
Aguijón Theater [1] American Blues Theater [2] Annoyance Theatre [3] Black Ensemble Theater Company [4] Center on Halsted [5] Chicago Dramatists [6] Chicago Shakespeare Theater [7] Chopin Theatre [8] Citadel Theatre (Lake Forest) [9] Copernicus Center (formerly Gateway Theatre) [10] Court Theatre [11] Factory Theater [12] First Folio Theatre ...
After only two years in business, the mall's movie theater was sold to Classic Cinemas, a theater company based in Downers Grove, Illinois. The company closed the theater from July to October 2001 in order to renovate it with new signage. As a result of this acquisition, Classic Cinemas owned all three movie theaters serving the city of St ...
A revival house, rep house, or repertory cinema is a cinema that specializes in showing classic or notable older films (as opposed to first run films).Such venues may include standard repertory cinemas, multi-function theatres that alternate between old movies and live events, and some first-run theatres that show past favorites alongside current independent films.
Tivoli Theater. The Tivoli Theatre was a movie palace at 6323 South Cottage Grove Avenue, at East 63rd Street, in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago's South Side.It was the first of the "big three" movie palaces built by the Balaban & Katz theatre chain run by brothers A. J. Balaban, Barney Balaban and their partner Sam Katz, who were also owners of the Rivera Theater (North Side) and the ...