The building wasn’t completely demolished. It currently stands as an Indian restaurant/banquet (Shikara Restaurant / Ashyana Banquets).
Check out the restaurant sometime. The food’s pretty decent, and you can kinda tell it used to be a theatre (from the left hallway to the room itself).
The “upper” section of Oak Brook 1-4 was converted into stores, which face the opposite side of the theatre. The box office was finally covered up a few years back. The food court area opposite seems to be having issues (McDonald’s pulled out and a brand new sushi joint closed just a year after opening). It’s too bad. I saw many flicks here as a kid, including some of the Star Wars re-releases at the standalone theatre in the parking lot.
One more thing: If you use Google Earth (not Maps), and input the above address(es), you can view historical Satellite data. The Mar 30 1994 map shows the theatre and Shopping Center in their former glory (Old Chicago was long gone at that time). The next date available is Apr 10 1998, and it’s all gone. Amazing how much changed in that short period.
Argh. My last comment wasn’t clear about the location of the theatre. If you go a couple hundred feet north of the intersection of: Stevenson and Old Chicago Dr., you’ll be standing where the theatre was. It is now a street.
Actually, the Menards is no longer there (it moved up north on Rt 53). Here’s where it all was: the Bolingbrook Theatre was located behind The Old Chicago Town Shopping Center, which was across the street (Rt. 53) from Old Chicago, which was an indoor amusement park. Everything was torn down (not all at the same time) except the K-Mart in the Shopping Center, which became the Menards that jimpiscitelli referenced above. To reference it all in Google Maps:
Old Chicago’s address was the SW block of: 53 and Old Chicago Dr. (torn down)
Old Chicago Town Shopping Center’s address was: 550 S Bolingbrook Dr. (torn down except for K-Mart)
Bolingbrook Threatre stood a couple hundred feet north of the intersection of: Stevenson and Old Chicago Dr. (torn down)
The building is now Naperville Running Company.
The building wasn’t completely demolished. It currently stands as an Indian restaurant/banquet (Shikara Restaurant / Ashyana Banquets).
Check out the restaurant sometime. The food’s pretty decent, and you can kinda tell it used to be a theatre (from the left hallway to the room itself).
The “upper” section of Oak Brook 1-4 was converted into stores, which face the opposite side of the theatre. The box office was finally covered up a few years back. The food court area opposite seems to be having issues (McDonald’s pulled out and a brand new sushi joint closed just a year after opening). It’s too bad. I saw many flicks here as a kid, including some of the Star Wars re-releases at the standalone theatre in the parking lot.
One more thing: If you use Google Earth (not Maps), and input the above address(es), you can view historical Satellite data. The Mar 30 1994 map shows the theatre and Shopping Center in their former glory (Old Chicago was long gone at that time). The next date available is Apr 10 1998, and it’s all gone. Amazing how much changed in that short period.
Argh. My last comment wasn’t clear about the location of the theatre. If you go a couple hundred feet north of the intersection of: Stevenson and Old Chicago Dr., you’ll be standing where the theatre was. It is now a street.
Actually, the Menards is no longer there (it moved up north on Rt 53). Here’s where it all was: the Bolingbrook Theatre was located behind The Old Chicago Town Shopping Center, which was across the street (Rt. 53) from Old Chicago, which was an indoor amusement park. Everything was torn down (not all at the same time) except the K-Mart in the Shopping Center, which became the Menards that jimpiscitelli referenced above. To reference it all in Google Maps: