Charles, I’ll get you a copy of Cicero and Oak Park if you like. Let me know how you want me to get them to you, ie PO box or delivery address. Kevincon
THE RITZ THEATER: it couldn’t have been at 6334 as the begining of this article states, that would have put the Ritz Theater in Oak Park on the north side of Roosevelt Road.
I believe the Ritz Theater was at 6337 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, Illinois 60402. The Atrium building, now condos, at 6337 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, Illinois 60402 has evidence of a theater as it’s base. If you look in the parking garage you’ll see a raked concrete floor with small holes that run from the south wall to the north wall on a curve indicating where theater seats were bolted to the floor. The stage was at the east end of the parking garage. Evidence of a back stage area on the southeast corner of the garage and farther east is a room with tongue and grove boards commonly used for stage flooring. If you stand in the parking lot south of the building you can see evidence of a fly loft in the brick work on the farthest south wall. Someone must have pictures of the Ritz Theater. It was standing on this site until the 1980s.
josephdkovarik, I’m very interested in seeing pictures of the Ritz Theater. You can e-mail me at
Charles, I’ll get you a copy of Cicero and Oak Park if you like. Let me know how you want me to get them to you, ie PO box or delivery address. Kevincon
THE RITZ THEATER: it couldn’t have been at 6334 as the begining of this article states, that would have put the Ritz Theater in Oak Park on the north side of Roosevelt Road.
I believe the Ritz Theater was at 6337 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, Illinois 60402. The Atrium building, now condos, at 6337 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn, Illinois 60402 has evidence of a theater as it’s base. If you look in the parking garage you’ll see a raked concrete floor with small holes that run from the south wall to the north wall on a curve indicating where theater seats were bolted to the floor. The stage was at the east end of the parking garage. Evidence of a back stage area on the southeast corner of the garage and farther east is a room with tongue and grove boards commonly used for stage flooring. If you stand in the parking lot south of the building you can see evidence of a fly loft in the brick work on the farthest south wall. Someone must have pictures of the Ritz Theater. It was standing on this site until the 1980s.