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[8] [12] In September 2018, Rapper and Chicago native Kanye West committed to help restore the theater, pledging to donate $1 million dollars. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The Chicago Regal Foundation was created to raise funds to reopen and operate the Avalon Regal Theater, and offers tours of the building during the Chicago Architecture Foundation 's annual ...
Both theaters were able to attract several big names but, due to its size and central location, the Regal was arguably able to book bigger acts. Prior to the opening of the Regal, Chicago experienced the Great Migration , which brought a large number of blacks from the south into the city looking for a new life and work.
2424 North Lincoln Avenue is a building in Lincoln Park, Chicago, adjacent to the Biograph Theater. From 1912 to 2006, it variously housed the Fullerton Theater, an auto garage, the Crest Theater, and the 3-Penny Cinema. Since 2009 it has been Lincoln Hall, a music venue.
Location Venue Main event Notes Revolution [23] February 29, 2020 Chicago, Illinois: Wintrust Arena: Chris Jericho (c) vs. Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship [24] Held in conjunction with the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) Double or Nothing [25] May 23, 2020 Jacksonville, Florida: Daily's Place TIAA Bank Field [a]
From the 1970s through the 1980s, the Biograph was the center in Chicago for midnight showings, with raucous costumed cult following, of Rocky Horror Picture Show. [ 5 ] In July 2004, after 90 years as a movie theater under various owners, Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater announced it had purchased the Biograph for use as a live venue.
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to “Daytime Revolution,” a documentary about the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted “The Mike Douglas Show” in early 1972. Directed ...
Chicago Center for the Performing Arts [73] Compass Players; Defiant Theatre; The Ethiopian Art Theatre/Players; Famous Door Theatre [74] First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook) Goat Island; Happy Happy Good Show; The Hypocrites [75] Illinois Theatre Center; Improv Institute; Infamous Commonwealth Theatre [76] Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company; New Age ...
Illinois Museum of Natural History, campus of Illinois State University, Old Main building, from 1857-1877; Korean War National Museum, Sangamon, closed in 2017, collections transferred to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum [82] Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, closed in 2012, collections now at the Peoria Riverfront ...