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The Regal Theater was a night club, theater, and music venue, popular among African Americans, located in the Bronzeville neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. [1] The theater was designed by Edward Eichenbaum, [2] and opened in February 1928. It closed in 1968 and was demolished in 1973.
In 2016, following further leasing disputes, the owners of the Double Door filed a proposal with the city of Chicago to allow them to begin restoring the historic Logan Square State and Savings Bank building located at 2551 N. Milwaukee Ave., about a mile from its original location. [7] The Double Door closed due to eviction in 2017. [2]
The Star Plaza Theatre (formerly known as the Holiday Star Theatre) was a live music venue located in Merrillville, Indiana. The theatre was a 3,400-seat intimate venue with two seating levels in a semicircle around the stage. The Main Floor Level sat 2,000 people, and the Mezzanine Level, which overhangs the main level about midway, sat 1,400.
Grand Lux Cafe, an iconic Magnificent Mile establishment, will close after 21 years, according to an announcement Thursday. The restaurant’s last day of service will be on Christmas Eve ...
Gemco – acquired by Lucky Stores in 1961; [192] closed in 1986 and the vacant buildings sold to Target; [193] known as Memco in the Chicago and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas Pace Membership Warehouse – founded in Denver in 1983 and quickly expanded to the East Coast; [ 194 ] [ 195 ] acquired by Kmart in 1989; [ 196 ] [ 197 ] later ...
The Club DeLisa closed its doors on February 16, 1958, after the deaths of two of the DeLisa brothers. The closing of the club was commemorated in the February 6, 1958 issue of Chicago-based Jet magazine, stating the club would close on February 16 of that year. [1] The magazine has Saunders quoted saying "I haven't had a vacation since 1952.
Mars Wrigley is closing a nearly century-old chocolate plant on Chicago’s West Side once hailed as the most beautiful candy factory in America. Built in a Spanish-style architecture in 1928, the ...
The club was the epitome of the golden age of entertainment, and it hosted a wide variety of performers, from singers to comedians to vaudeville acts. [1] A "new" Chez Paree opened briefly in the mid-1960s on 400 N. Wabash Avenue and was seen in the film Mickey One with Warren Beatty .