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Other perimeter buildings included auto centers for the JCPenney and Montgomery Ward anchors, a General Cinema movie theater, and two restaurants. One unusual feature is the Boeger-Brinkman Cemetery on the southern end of the parking lot, along Butterfield Road. The cemetery was part of a family's farmland that was sold to develop Yorktown ...
The Pickwick Theatre is an art deco movie palace located in Park Ridge, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. [ 2 ] Designed by Roscoe Harold Zook , William F. McCaughey, and Alfonso Iannelli , the Pickwick opened in 1928 as a vaudeville stage and movie theatre.
The Spencer Arms Hotel. Designed by William P. Doerr, it was built in 1924 and opened in 1925 as a vaudeville and movie theater. [2] [1] [3] The building also housed the Spencer Arms Hotel, a fifty-room hotel to the west of the theater, while the Jackson Park National Bank was located at the corner of 71st and Jeffery.
The Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions.It gained early notoriety as the location where bank robber John Dillinger was leaving when he was shot down by FBI agents, after he watched a gangster movie there on July 22, 1934.
The 1200-seat Hinsdale Theater was constructed in 1925 for $160,000. Chain retailers began to move into the downtown district starting in the 1920s, starting with a Loblaw food chain in 1929 (which was purchased in 1932 by the Jewel Tea Company ).
The Ramova Theater is a historic movie theater at 3508-3518 South Halsted Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Businessman Jokūbas Maskoliūnas, one of the many Lithuanian immigrants who settled in Bridgeport in the early twentieth century, built the theater in 1929. The theater opened with 1,300 seats, making it the ...
Circuit City opened in the area around the mall on November 24, [17] and a ten-screen movie theater, one of Marcus Theatres' first Illinois locations, opened at the mall on December 10. [18] The same year, Sears closed its chain of catalog outlet stores, [19] leaving a space which was filled by a Macy's Close-Out store and later by JCPenney.
Classic Cinemas is the largest Illinois based movie theatre chain. Headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois , it operates 16 locations with 141 screens in Illinois and Wisconsin under Tivoli Enterprises ownership. [ 1 ]