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The Congress Theater is a historic movie palace in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. Fridstein and Company designed it in 1926 for the movie theater operator Lubliner and Trinz . It features ornate exterior and interior design work in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.
He fought to save culturally important buildings such as the Chicago Theatre, the Congress Theater, and many others, including the Uptown Theatre, a movie palace still in need of a renovation plan. He also worked to have the Chicago Wicker Park neighborhood designated a Chicago Landmark District.
The Chicago Cultural Center underwent an extensive [3] renovation during 2021–2022 [4] with the goal of unearthing the original beauty of the building. The detailed restoration of the art glass dome and decorative finishes in the Grand Army of the Republic rooms, a Civil War memorial, was made possible by a grant of services valued at over $15 million to the City of Chicago.
CHICAGO — In March 2019, a group of Steppenwolf Theatre leaders gathered at the offices of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, an internationally renowned architecture and design firm that had designed ...
The Kouvanis family sold the theater to Eddie Caranza, who owns the Congress Theater as well. [7] Chris Bauman, the president of Zenith Music Group and operator of the Avondale Music Hall in Chicago, [ 8 ] purchased the building in 2019, and lead renovation efforts; the theater reopened in Fall 2021.
Congress Theater, Chicago This page was last edited on 27 March 2009, at 04:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phylicia Rashad and others will unveil a new bill Thursday as the industry struggles: 'If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.'
The theater was the first home of the Chicago Civic Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 17, 1970. [ 2 ] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975, [ 3 ] and was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 15, 1976. [ 4 ]