Movie Theaters
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First Name
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Street
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Address
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Opened
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Closed
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Architect
Permit
Owner
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Seats
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Subsequent Names
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Sources*
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Notes
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Balmoral
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Sheridan
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5400
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1962-12-28
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1966-02
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Demos Family
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500
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None
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Chicago Tribune 1-6-1963
2-20-1966
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|
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Bryn Mawr
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Bryn Mawr
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1125
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1912
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1988 circa
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Rapp & Rapp
8-1912
Dennis Colbert & Co.
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768
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New Bryn Mawr (1930}, Gar War (early 1980s)
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Chicago Tribune 9-18-1915
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|
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Calo
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Clark
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5406
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1915-11-20
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George H. Borst
4-10-1915
Calo Theatre Co.
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880
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None
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Chicago Tribune 5-28-1918
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Ascher Brothers
Early photograph
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Edgewater
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Bryn Mawr
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1130
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1912
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1914
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William W. Blair
5-28-1898
Christian N. Michels
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299
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New Elite?
(no contemporary sources)
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Motion Picture News, 11-23-1912; Chicago Tribune for sale ad, 7-2-1914
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In 1912, operated by Mr. & Mrs. R. L. Cresey. The 1915 City Directory shows a grocer at this locaton.
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Ellantee
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Devon
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1554
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1917
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3-29-1917
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1480
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Ridge
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Last Chicago Tribune citation: 7-11-1948
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Building was 1548-56
Early photograph
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Foster
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Broadway
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5206
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1910
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1921-04, before
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Hamilton & Perkins
11-1909
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The Broadway (between 1914)
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Chicago Tribune 9-19-1915;
10-6-1917
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1909 photograph
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Granville
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Broadway
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6161
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1912?
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1914?
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S.N. Crowen
5-16-1912
J.B. Carter
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None
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Chicago Tribune , 2-14 , 2-21, 5-2, 1914
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Granville Theater Co. incorporated 1=23-1913, CT
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Hollywood
|
Broadway
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5628
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1913
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1914
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For 5626
Xx
3-15-1913 (P)
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299
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None
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Chicago Tribune, 12-7-1913; 2-15-1914; 2-25-1914; 5-2-1914
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Ads refer to 5628, but permit for this building was issued 12-9-1915 #N26641; probably in building with one address of 5626
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Knickerbocker
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Broadway
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6217-25
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1916?
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1980?
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H.L.Newhouse 9-11-1915
Gottsshalk & Co.
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949
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Devon
renamed 12-25-1929
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Chicago Tribune 10-16-1917; last citation: 9-5-1980
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Part of larger building 6217-25
Demolished 1996
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Le Grand
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Clark
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5241
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1913?
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B/4
1953
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Hall & Westerlund
3-19-1910
J. Klitz
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Acme
The Temple
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Chicago Tribune 12-7-1913, 2-5-1914 for LeGrand
Acme” 5-28-18 & 7-20-18
Temple:9-24-1923; 11-4-1937
2-17-1969 Voice of the People, memories of Harry H. Mautner; Temple 1925 flyer
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Part of larger building 5233-43
Address was National Tea in 1948
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New Devon
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Devon
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1616
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1913?
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1917?
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H. J. Ross
10-3-1912
C.J. Grady
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None
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Chicago Tribune 5-2-1914; 9-30-1917
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Thelma
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Clark
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5255
|
1910
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1914?
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Ed Benson
12-11-1909
B. Rosenberg
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None
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Chicago Tribune 2-14 & 5-2, 1914; 2-17-1969 Voice of the People, memories of Harry H. Mautner
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Thome
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Clark
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6241
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1913
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1914?
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?
4-15-1913
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None
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Chicago Tribune 12-7-1913, 2-5-1914
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