Lincoln Village 1-6
6341 McCormick Boulevard,
Chicago,
IL
60659
6341 McCormick Boulevard,
Chicago,
IL
60659
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Brotman & Sherman Theaters, Cineplex Odeon, Loews Cineplex, Village Theatres
Functions: Storage
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News About This Theater
- Dec 2, 2008 — Is Village Entertainment out of business?
- Jan 23, 2008 — Plitt and Cineplex-Odeon in Chicago
- Oct 5, 2007 — Lincoln Village 1-6 to close
This cinema opened June 29, 1989 as an addition to the orignal Lincoln Village cinema that had three screens.
The first movies to show at Lincoln Village 1-6 were “The Karate Kid Part III”, (on two screens), “Do The Right Thing”, “Great Balls of Fire”, and “Batman” (on two screens).
When the new six screen building opened, the original triplex changed from the Lincoln Village 1-3 to the 7-9. In the early 2000’s, the former Lincoln Village 7-9 was closed and demolished, replaced by a Borders Bookstore. In late-2005, the Lincoln Village 1-6 was sold by Loews to the Village Theatres chain.
The Lincoln Village may have been partially leased by FunAsia, a chain featuring Bollywood films, in May of 2008. The theater closed November 9, 2008. After being vacant for some time, it was converted to storage units.
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Interesting plan to convert this former movie house into a storage facility. It looks like the building’s basic shape will be retained. As I’ve said before, this was a theater that should have done well.
Paul Fortini: Brotman & Sherman operated the original LV; which would later get triplexed by Essaness Theatres. The LV 1-6 was build by CO.
Passed by yesterday and saw the conversion underway. There is a large hole in the north wall. It is nice that something is finally being done with this property. It’s been an eyesore for quite some time. Uploaded three images to photos section.
Complete tour of the Lincoln Village 6’s projection booth during its final year of operation by an employee can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfXHovgb0dE
Interesting to note that this theater had dual ports and was designed for change overs in all 6 auditoriums but I’m not sure if it ever operated with out platters.
Whatever they are doing to the building it is taking forever. Construction still continues. They are also using different colored brick to add on, which doesn’t seem like it will look very good.
I miss this theater. It was pretty great in the early 90s and last half of 1989 when it opened.
Interesting to see its Yelp page chronicling how far it’s fallen by the aughts:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/lincoln-village-cinemas-1-6-chicago
The Lincoln Village was dropped by Loews Cineplex on October 6, 2005. Village Theaters took on that venue independently operating it almost exclusively from October 7, 2005 until November 9, 2008 and the end of its leasing agreement after 40 years with “Saw V,” “Tropic Thunder,” “Pineapple Express”, “The Longshots,” and “Star Wars: Clone Wars” ending that venue’s run. It was converted to a storage facility after a prolonged vacancy.
So no FunAsia ownership?
I’m no expert but Village Theaters has a documentable path of bookings for its three years of operation: Oct. 2005 to Nov. 2008. That said, FunAsia sublet screens in that era in some Texas locations. So a likely scenario is that they leased one, two or three auditoriums at the Lincoln Village 1-6 for a period in 2008. That would allow Village Theaters to commit to its bookings. As FunAsia did have its Bloomingdale, Illinois location beginning in late Fall of 2007, it could have sublet the entire facility in 2008… but that would have been an extremely short run (as in weeks).
Okay, I’ll update the listing based on that understanding.