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2. Orpheum Circuit - Wikipedia

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   The Orpheum theaters now dominated the big-time circuit west of Chicago. [2] In May 1901, Meyerfeld and Beck, along with other big-time Vaudeville theater owners such as Benjamin Franklin Keith and Edward Franklin Albee II who dominated the Eastern Vaudeville Circuit, met to discuss uniting vaudeville theaters nationwide.

3. Balaban and Katz - Wikipedia

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   In 2006, a documentary, Uptown: Portrait of a Palace, featured one of Balaban and Katz's most famous theaters, the Uptown. 2006 also saw the publication of a book on many of the B&K theatres, titled The Chicago Movie Palaces of Balaban and Katz, written by David Balaban with a foreword by theater historian Joseph DuciBella and published by ...

4. Metro Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Chicago favorites Alkaline Trio recently [when?] celebrated playing 30 sold out shows at the venue. On July 22, 2007, Metro celebrated its 25th anniversary, with a free public concert at Millennium Park's Jay Pritzker Pavilion with the Decemberists backed by the Grant Park Orchestra. On July 21, 2007, Metro held an employee reunion and public ...

5. Congress Theater - Wikipedia

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   The Congress Theater is a historic movie palace in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago. Fridstein and Company designed it in 1926 for the movie theater operator Lubliner and Trinz . It features ornate exterior and interior design work in a combination of the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance styles.

6. Pekin Theatre - Wikipedia

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   Pekin Rag was written by Joe Jordan, to celebrate Robert T Motts' Pekin Club, in Chicago. The club soon became the ground-breaking, African American Pekin Theatre. Established on June 18, 1904, Chicago’s Pekin Theatre was the first black owned musical and vaudeville

7. Nederlander Theatre (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   The Oriental Theater opened in 1926 as one of many ornate movie palaces built in Chicago during the 1920s by the firm Rapp and Rapp. In addition to movies, it occasionally showed live acts. The Oriental continued to be a vital part of Chicago's theater district into the 1960s, but patronage declined in the 1970s.