400 Theater
6746 N. Sheridan Road,
Chicago,
IL
60626
6746 N. Sheridan Road,
Chicago,
IL
60626
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Essaness Theaters Corp., Village Theatres
Firms: Grossman & Proskauer
Previous Names: Regent Theater, 400 Twin Theater, Visionary Theatres, Village North Theater, New 400 Theaters
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News About This Theater
- Feb 6, 2012 — 400 is the new 100
- Jul 7, 2009 — The 400 Theater is back
- Jan 19, 2009 — Village North/Visionary Theatre closes
- Dec 2, 2008 — Is Village Entertainment out of business?
Built as the Regent Theater, opening late-1913 in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, this was one of its earliest movie houses and originally sat about 725 in its auditorium. It was equipped with a Kimball 2 manual 4 ranks organ. In 1930, the theater was renamed the 400 Theater.
In 1990, it was divided into four small auditoriums, three seating about 200, one only about 150. It was purchased by the owners of the Village Theater in the Old Town neighborhood and modernized, and given the name of the Village North Theater. For the last several years, the theater was operated by Village Entertainment.
In September 2008, the former Village North began operating as Visionary Theatres, but by January of 2009, the theater was closed. It was reopened again as the New 400 Theaters on July 1, 2009. The owner of the building suddenly closed the theater on August 16, 2023.
On December2-, 2025 it was announced that it had been leased by Jordan Stancil who operates several movie theaters in Michigan, including the Rialto Theater, Greyling, MI, the Sanctury Theater in Alpena, MI & the Rapids Theater, Big Rapids, MI. It will re-open as the 400 Theater.
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Recent comments (view all 132 comments)
This is very discouraging news. It’s a wonderful theater with a rich history of over 100 years. They even sell alcohol and have a nice bar. It’s really sad that people are not coming back to this wonderful theater and big enough numbers to keep it open. They have good movies and it’s great you can have popcorn soda candy and if you want a beer with your popcorn that’s a lot of fun. I’ve never seen business fall off this much for movie theaters across the country. Still plenty of good movies to go see but people choose to just sit home and watch things on television that’s what is really hurting the movie theater business like never before
This final chapter in movie exhibition history - and one hopes it will be a lengthy chapter - will be challenging to witness for theatre aficionados. At the same time, it’s equally worthy of recognizing the efforts of those facing insurmountable odds to keep their theaters going as long as they can or could. Well done, Regent / New 400. We salute you.
Story here
I wish I would have taken photos of the interior while I had the chance. The last movies I saw here were M3g, Cocaine Bear, Barbie, and Bros.
January 1977 print ad added. The 400 briefly ran XXX films.
Status should be changed to open!
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/01/rogers-parks-new-400-theaters-is-reopening-as-new-operator-revives-113-year-old-movie-house/
CT Admins likely won’t change the status to Open until it actually does. They usually change it to Renovating per my experience. But here is the new Facebook page for the 400 via the Alderwoman Maria Hadden’s page.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583980296254
Exhibitor Jordan Stancil, who operates three historic theatres in Michigan - the Sanctuary in Alpena, the Big Rapids in Big Rapids and the Rialto in Grayling, the latter that his family has owned since 1915 - has leased the closed 1912 New 400 Theatre, a victim of the pandemic, and plans to restore its 65-year name to The 400 Theatre, with its reopening date to be announced. Stancil expects to program the 400 with new domestic and foreign product and live events with updated projection capabilities.
Link to article is here