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Wintrust Arena is home to the WNBA team, The Chicago Sky. In October 2021, Wintrust Arena hosted Games 3 and 4 of the WNBA Finals, during which the Chicago Sky defeated the Phoenix Mercury to capture the team's first championship. [31] Both home games featured sell-out capacity crowds of 10,387.
The theater opened in the 1910s, with a capacity of 1,000 people. In 1965, the theater became the "Town Theatre", eventually showing adult films and featuring live burlesque by 1967. In the 1970s, it was purchased by Dale Niedermaier and John May, refurbished and reopened as "Park West", the music venue and special events space May 11, 1977.
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The Arie Crown Theatre sustained only minor damage in the 1967 fire, and so was incorporated into the interior of the new building. The theater, with the largest seating capacity of any active theater in Chicago (the Uptown Theatre having more seating, but currently closed), underwent major modifications in 1997 to improve its acoustics.
Credit Union 1 Arena is located on the campus of the University of Illinois Chicago.Originally named the UIC Pavilion, it opened in 1982, and was renovated in 2001. The arena is rented for many functions and concerts.
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In March 2013, the Chicago Plan Commission approved a $3 million plan [8] to grow the venue's capacity from 8,000 to 30,000 seats. [9] This would mean rotating the stage to feature a lawn seating area, increasing the overall space of the venue from 4.78 to 6.9 acres.
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.