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The Virginia Theatre opened December 28, 1921 with a live stage performance of The Bat. The following night, the silent films Tol'able David and The Boat were shown at the theatre. Since then, it has been presenting movies, live concerts, and plays to the Champaign-Urbana community and has only been closed for short periods of renovation by the ...
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Its original Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ [13] has been maintained by Warren York since 1988 and is still played regularly. The Art Theater [14] in downtown Champaign began as Champaign's first theatre devoted to movies, the Park, in 1912, and is a small venue showing films not normally playing at the box office. The theatre is the only single ...
The theatre was the only single-screen movie theatre with daily operation as a movie theatre in Champaign-Urbana. The theater ceased operations on October 31 of 2019. [25] The Virginia, which hosts Roger Ebert's Annual Overlooked Film Festival, is also single-screen, but only opens for special showings and events.
Orpheum Theater (RKO Orpheum Theatre) 346-352 N Neil Street 1914 Classical Revival exterior; French Renaissance interior February 28, 1991 Park Theater (Art Theater Co-Op) 126-128 W Church Street 1913 Classical Revival Phi Delta Theta: 309 E Chalmers Street 1922 Tudor Revival February 25, 2004 Prayer for Rain Statue West Side Park: 1899
Location of Champaign County in Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a ...
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The statue (visible at left in 2017) was unveiled outside of the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, Illinois, on April 24, 2014, during Ebertfest.[13]At noon on April 24, 2014, during the second day of that year's Ebertfest, Donna and Scott Anderson officially unveiled the statue outside of the theater.