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  • <p>Another one from my father’s collection. From the same negative the smaller color photo was from.</p>
  • <p>Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL in 1926 - View of one of the spacious upstairs Lobbies</p>
  • <p>Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL in 1926</p>
  • <p>Photo Courtesy Of The Chicago Theater FB Page.</p>
  • <p>The Chicago and the State Lake at night. Note the cobblestone streets.</p>
  • <p>The Chicago circa 1956.</p>
  • <p>1951 Christmas parade. Photo courtesy of Darla Zailskas.</p>
  • <p>1964 Christmas photo courtesy of Darla Zailskas.</p>
  • <p> World Premiere Engagement that opened on June 1st, 1951, when the Chicago still had a stage/screen policy. Universal flew in a plane load of celebrities, including rising stars Tony Curtis and Piper Laurie, and old-timers Francis X. Bushman and Betty Blythe.</p>
  • <p>This engagement opened on April 26th, 1940, and included the first stage booking for Hattie McDaniel since winning her ‘Oscar’ for “GWTW” on February 29th of that Leap Year. Between film jobs, she had often worked in vaudeville with an act of singing and comic patter.</p>
  • <p>1972 St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Photo credit Garry Winogrand.</p>
  • <p>1960 photo courtesy of Allan Zirlin.</p>
  • <p>07/16/76-09/09/76 photo courtesy of Allan Zirlin.</p>
  • <p>The Marx Brothers played an ultra-rare stage engagement at the Chicago Theatre. For one week, in May, 1940, they fine tuned the script for their next MGM movie, “Go West.” Production was finished in time for the B&W comedy’s Christmas release.</p>
  • <p>Bob Hope brought the cast of his popular radio program to the Chicago Theatre for a week in May, 1940, with six complete shows daily to accommodate the crowds.</p>
  • <p>1940 photo, source unknown.</p>
  • <p>The final night for the Chicago Theatre as a full-time Plitt movie house. Thursday, September 19, 1985. Photo by Jack Lenahan, Chicago Sun-Times.</p>
  • <p>This one-week engagement at the Chicago Theatre in June, 1940, included a spectacular 90-minute stage revue with 60 entertainers, 40 scantily-dressed showgirls, and 12 scenery changes.</p>
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  • <p>A group of friends pose in front of the Chicago Theatre in 1981. NAPOLEON (1927) was having its historic engagement at the Chicago Theatre in the spring of 1981. Photo by Alan Light.</p>