Mundelein Cinema
155 N. Seymour Avenue,
Mundelein,
IL
60060
155 N. Seymour Avenue,
Mundelein,
IL
60060
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Opened in 1974 as a part of the short-lived Jerry Lewis theater chain, this small theater, seating just over 300, was located on Seymour Avenue, near Division Street, in the northern Chicago suburb of Mundelein. It was a second-run house for the entire time it was in operation.
The Mundelein Cinema was one of only a handful of Chicagoland area movie houses to host midnight screenings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. The theater closed in late-1996, was briefly reopened in 1997 for about a year, then closed again for good. The former theater has since housed a church.
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This was the place where I saw Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time. We used to drive well over an hour to get there but we always had a great time. The cast there was great. Some of the regular people that came EVERY Saturday night were interesting to say the least. I saw the Rocky Horror at a couple other theaters but the Mundelein Theateer was by far my favorite.
An interesting item appeared in Boxoffice on October 16, 1948. It said that the old Congregational Church in Mundelein had been converted into a theater. It didn’t give the theater’s name, but said that it seated 100, so it was quite small. I suppose there is a fitting symmetry to Mundelein’s later theater becoming a church.