Bensenville Center Theatre
9-15 Center Street,
Bensenville,
IL
60106
9-15 Center Street,
Bensenville,
IL
60106
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One of the last second run theaters left in the Chicago area. The number of weeks between a movie is released and when it shows here are getting shorter. This weekend they’re playing The Fall Guy which was released last week and Challengers which was released two weeks ago.
The theater has completed their phase 1 restoration and is now known as Center Theatre again.
i’m on their email showtime mailing list. i like this place and’ll insist here there is nothing to dislike about it (OK bensenville has a little ways to go for becoming a nightlife hotspot). almost a ‘where have you been all my movie-going life?’ theatre choice.
Here is a January 1948 ad from the Daily Herald:
http://tinyurl.com/q625st
Tickets are still only $3, if you don’t mind sitting through “Speed Racer”:
http://tinyurl.com/68mmam
It opened October 17, 1925 and cost $90,000 to build. It originally seated about 400, and had a Barton organ. It contained “unusual light fixtures” and was “uniquely plastered”.
I do hope this theater doesn’t close. My husband I just bought a condo within walking distance and the theater is one of the main attractions in the area.
I go to this theater alot because I live in bensenville now. It’s A “cute” little theater with A killer ice cream parlor. I hear that they are going thought some problems thou. I read in the bensenville newsletter that the theater was losing money and was scheduled to close…but I haven’t seen no changes yet and the theater is still open.
P.S. I hope it dosen’t close because I really like this theater.