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Advance Theater
3948 N. Damen Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60613
3948 N. Damen Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60613
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This theater, located in the North Center neighborhood, near the intersection of N. Damen Avenue, N. Lincoln Avenue and W. Irving Park Road. The Advance Theater was opened in late-1912. It is briefly mentioned in 1914 and 1916 articles in the Motion Picture World. By 1920, the Chicago Tribune gives this address as an auto dealership. Today the building houses mixed retail and residential.
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Damen Avenue was called Robey Street until 1927, so this item from the September 21, 1912, issue of Construction News must be about the Advance Theatre:
Architect Harry Dalsey was quite active during this period. If bids on the project were being taken in September, it’s possible that the project was completed before the end of 1912, but even if not the theater was surely open by early 1913.