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  2. Theater in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Illinois Theatre, Chicago, Illinois, c.1909. The young settlement of Chicago in 1834 saw its first commercial production by a fire eater and ventriloquist, Mr. Brown. In 1837, the first resident theater company, the short-lived Chicago Theater, opened in the Sauganash Hotel. One of the players was then a boy named Joseph Jefferson, who grew to ...

  3. CIBC Theatre - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. 87th Street (Woodruff) station - Wikipedia

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    87th Street (Woodruff) is an electrified commuter rail station along the Metra Electric Main Line in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.The station is located at 87th Street and Dauphin Avenue (although unofficially includes South Ingleside Avenue) and is 10.9 miles (17.5 km) away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station. [2]

  5. Chris Jones: What happened to theater in Chicago? - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. 87th station - Wikipedia

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    87th is an 'L' station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line.The station is located in the median of the Dan Ryan Expressway and serves the Chatham neighborhood. There are two entrances to the station, one on the south side of the 87th Street overpass which served as the only entrance from 1969 until 2006 and one on the north side of the overpass which was opened as part of the Dan Ryan ...

  7. Metro Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Built. 1927 (97 years ago) (1927) Opened. 1979 (45 years ago) (1979) Website. metrochicago.com. Metro (formerly the Stages Music Hall and Cabaret Metro[1]) is a concert hall in Chicago, Illinois, United States, that plays host to a variety of local, regional and national emerging bands and musicians. [2] The Metro was first opened in 1982.

  8. List of theaters in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Factory Theater 12. First Folio Theatre (Oak Brook) 13. Goodman Theatre 14. iO Theater 15. Kane Repertory Theatre (St. Charles) 16. Lifeline Theatre 17. Lookingglass Theatre Company 18. Lyric Opera of Chicago 19. Marriott Theatre (Lincolnshire) 20.

  9. Chicago Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz (B&K) group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban , his brother Barney Balaban and partner Sam Katz. [ 5 ]