1953 photo courtesy of Mike Tuggle.

photos like this excellent one of the block that was demolished for the civic/daley center early ‘60s intrigue me greatly. It struck me as odd there weren’t any movie theatres on it but of obviously with the old RKO grand operating to 1958 that belief was wrong, plus another called the World there on Randolph it seems. Special attention that the RKO Grand premiered It’s A Wonderful Life for chicagoans