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Chicago Theatre
Built in 1921, the theater was restored to its full glory in 1986.
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Places to see in ( Chicago - USA ) The Chicago Theatre
Places to see in ( Chicago - USA ) The Chicago Theatre
The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz (B&K) group of theaters run by A. J. Balaban, his brother Barney Balaban and partner Sam Katz.
Along with the other B&K theaters, from 1925 to 1945 the Chicago Theatre was a dominant movie theater enterprise. Currently, Madison Square Garden, Inc. owns and operates the Chicago Theatre as a performing arts venue for stage plays, magic shows, comedy, speeches, and popular music concerts.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places June 6, 1979, and was listed as a Chicago Landmark January 28, 1983. The distinctive Chicago Theatre marquee, an unofficial emblem of the city, appears frequently in film, television, artwork, and photography.
The structure is seven stories tall and fills nearly one half of a city block. The 60-foot (18 m) wide by six-story tall triumphal arch motif of the State Street façade has been journalistically compared to the l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The central arch-headed window adapts the familiar motif of Borromini's false-perspective window reveals of the top floor of Palazzo Barberini, Rome. The coat of arms of the Balaban and Katz chain—two horses holding ribbons of 35 mm film in their mouths outlined by a border of film reels—is set inside a circular Tiffany stained glass window inside the arch.
The theatre is also known for its grand Wurlitzer pipe organ. At the time it was installed it was known as “The Mighty Wurlitzer” and could imitate the instruments of an orchestra. Jesse Crawford, a noted Theatre Organ performer, is attributed as the person who was responsible for the design and choice of sounds. The organ came from Wurlitzer's North Tonawanda Barrel Organ Factory in July 1921 with four manuals and 26 ranks of pipes-Opus 434. The American Theatre Organ Society restored the organ in 1970, which had expanded the organ from 26 to 29 ranks by that time. It is one of the oldest Mighty Wurlitzers still in existence.
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The Abandoned Theater In Chicago, Illinois
This is the abandoned Uptown Theater, a theater that was built in 1925 and was closed down in 1981. This theater is located in the Chicago neighborhood of Uptown on Broadway Street. It is considered a Chicago Landmark and is on the list of the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The Uptown Theatre, also known as the Balaban and Katz Uptown Theatre, is a massive, ornate movie palace. Designed by Rapp and Rapp and constructed in 1925, it the last of the big three movie palaces built by the Balaban & Katz theatre chain run by A. J. Balaban, his brother Barney Balaban and their partner Sam Katz.
The largest in Chicago, it boasts 4,381 seats and its interior volume is said to be larger than any other movie palace in the United States, including Radio City Music Hall in New York. It occupies over 46,000 square feet (4,300 m2) of land at the corner of Lawrence Avenue and Broadway in Chicago's Uptown Entertainment District. The mammoth theater has an ornate five story entrance lobby with an eight story façade.
Rehabilitation efforts are needed to restore and reopen this historic Chicago landmark, which has been closed to regular audiences since 1981. -Wikipedia.
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Hampton Inn Majestic Chicago Theatre District - Chicago Hotels, Illinois
Hampton Inn Majestic Chicago Theatre District 3 Stars Hotel in Chicago, Illinois Within US Travel DirectoryStay in the heart of Chicago–Show mapThis property is 11 minutes walk from the beach.
Located in Chicago’s cultural district, this hotel is in the same historic building as the Bank of America Theater.
It serves a hot breakfast buffet every morning.
Free Wi-Fi access is available in every boldly colored room at Hampton Inn Majestic Chicago Theatre District.
They are also equipped with a coffee maker and ironing facilities.
Room service is available for lunch and dinner.
A modern fitness center in on site at the Majestic Chicago Theatre District Hampton Inn.
The front desk is staffed 24 hours a day, and a business centre is available.
Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago are an 8-minute walk from the hotel.
The Shedd Aquarium and Museum Campus are 4.
8 km away.
Chicago Loop is a great choice for travellers interested in architecture, city trips and parks.
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AC Hotel Chicago Downtown Video : Chicago, Illinois, United States
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WHERE YOU WANT TO BE Step out for great local shopping on The Magnificent Mile, Great Museums and Fantastic Restaurants. Don't miss Chicago sports with the Cubs, Sox, Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks. We're just minutes from The Loop; financial and theatre districts.
Don't forget we also have a secure heated indoor parking facility.REST ASSURED When the day is done, relax in front of a 37-inch HD flat-screen TV in one of our 226 guestrooms, whirlpool suites or balcony rooms with productive work spaces and an incredibly comfortable, best-in-class pillow top bed.ALL THE EXTRAS YOU LOVE Take a dip in our indoor heated pool or work out at any time in our 24-hour fitness center. If you're here for a meeting, enjoy our meeting space perfect for an intimate board meeting, productive seminar or networking event.
Our business center offers free Internet access. And you can breathe easy knowing our hotel is 100% smoke-free.
Check-in from 15:00 , check-out prior to 12:00
Bathtub, Shower, TV, Air conditioning, Coffee/Tea, Safe box, Hairdryer.
Parking, 24 hours Front Desk Service, Restaurant/cafe, Swimming Pool, Bar, Business centre, Gym, Laundry service, Concierge service.
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Chicago, Illinois, United States city tour
There are slides of Downtown Chicago, the Chicago Theatre, Navy Pier, Millennium Park, the Field Museum, the Willis Tower, John Hancock Center, Statue of the Republic, Jackson Park, Chicago Harbor Lighthouse, etc.
Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwest. The Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, has nearly 10 million people and is the third-largest in the U.S. Chicago is the seat of Cook County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and grew rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century. The city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation: O'Hare International Airport is the busiest airport in the world; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways and railroad freight. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranked seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index. As of 2014, Chicago had the third largest gross metropolitan product in the United States at US$610.5 billion.
In 2014, Chicago had 50.2 million international and domestic visitors. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, gospel and house music. It also has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. Chicago has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City.
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Places to see in ( Chicago - USA ) Oriental Theatre
Places to see in ( Chicago - USA ) Oriental Theatre
The Oriental Theatre is a theater located at 24 West Randolph Street in the Loop area of downtown Chicago, Illinois. Opened in 1926 as a deluxe movie palace, today the Oriental is operated by Broadway In Chicago, a subsidiary of the Nederlander Organization. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as New Masonic Building and Oriental Theater.
The Oriental Theatre opened in 1926 as one of many ornate movie palaces built in Chicago during the 1920s by the firm Rapp and Rapp. It was built on the same location as the former Iroquois Theatre (later the Colonial Theatre) site of a disastrous 1903 fire that claimed over 600 lives. Although the façade looks identical, the Oriental retained nothing from the building that once stood on the same site.
The Oriental continued to be a vital part of Chicago's theater district into the 1960s, but patronage declined in the 1970s along with the fortunes of the Chicago Loop in general. Late in the decade, the theater survived by showing exploitation films. It closed in 1981 and was vacant for more than a decade. The Oriental is one of several houses now operating in Chicago's revitalized Loop Theater District. According to Richard Christiansen, the opening of the Oriental spurred on the restoration of other theaters in The Loop.
The district is also home to the Cadillac Palace Theatre, CIBC Theatre (formerly The PrivateBank Theatre), the Goodman Theatre, and the Chicago Theatre. Randolph Street was traditionally the center of downtown Chicago's entertainment district until the 1960s when the area began to decline. The now demolished United Artists Theatre, Woods Theatre, Garrick Theater, State-Lake Theatre and Roosevelt Theatre were located on or near Randolph Street.
The architects of the Oriental were George L. and Cornelius W. Rapp, who also built the Palace and Chicago Theatres. The Oriental features decor inspired by the architecture of India. The 3,250-seat theater was operated by the city's dominant theater chain, Balaban and Katz (a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures).
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USA: Chicago, Illinois - Theater District (2012)
This is an amateur video filmed in spring 2012 at the Chicago Theater District section of Downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA.
This video includes only places that I had a chance to visit / see and use my phone's camera to film.
Although the video was filmed and edited by me, credit and rights for the background music belong to Imran Khan & Eren E.
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The Chicago Theater on State Street (July 25, 2015)
Produced and directed by Chris Krzentz on July 25, 2015
Chicago Theatre District with the Oriental Theatre and famous Chicago Theatre
Chicago Theatre District with the Oriental Theatre and famous Chicago Theatre
Check Out The Theater District in Downtown Chicago!!!!
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RICH CELENZA shows you what the CHICAGO Theater in Downtown Chicago looks like. Rich also walks down State street and talks about the world famous Theater District.
Rich discusses what places to visit when in Chicago which include The Second City (Chicago) and Improv Olympic (IO). Rich also talks about where to shop and how to save money when visiting Chicago.
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Officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the third most populous city in the United States. Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, not far behind New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018.
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Oficialmente la ciudad de Chicago, es la ciudad más poblada en el estado norteamericano de Illinois y la tercera más poblada en los Estados Unidos. Chicago es un centro internacional de finanzas, cultura, comercio, industria, educación, tecnología, telecomunicaciones y transporte. Los 58 millones de visitantes nacionales e internacionales de Chicago en 2018 la convirtieron en la segunda ciudad más visitada de la nación, no muy lejos de los 65 millones de visitantes de la ciudad de Nueva York en 2018.
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Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Of the many and varied attractions in Chicago, its most-visited is still the Navy Pier. Originally Municipal Pier #2, it was designed and built to serve as a cargo facility, passenger dock, and public gathering place. Jutting out onto Lake Michigan, the pier provided a cooler, breezier place than the city for crowds to attend entertainments during the stuffy summers, and had its own tram service out to the edge for those who didn’t wish to walk. When it opened to the public in 1916, it was the largest pier in the world.
During the 1910s, automobiles and trucks were beginning to take over some of the weight of transportation from ships, which delivered both freight and passengers to Chicago’s port. Thus its primary function became as an entertainment site, and steamboat traffic decreased. The pier was completed just in time for use in WWI, when military personnel and Red Cross workers took up residence during 1917-1918. After the war, the roaring twenties ushered in a streetcar line, theatre, auditorium, dance hall, radio station, dining pavilions, and the ‘Pageant of Progress’ in 1922. In 1927, in honor of WWI veterans who had served there, it officially became Navy Pier.
The pier saw many other notable moments in history, including the 1933 World’s Fair Century of Progress Exposition, Great Depression New Deal agencies, and conversion to a naval training center for the U.S. military during WWII. Following WWII, it became a college campus primarily serving returning veterans, until the U.S. Bicentennial in 1976 returned it to public use. Music and art festivals shared the pier with exhibition halls, and in 1989, a major overhaul brought new life to the pier.
Currently, the pier is home to a variety of entertainments and attractions, including its own Ferris wheel, IMAX theatre, concert stage, ballroom, public art installations, miniature golf course, funhouse maze, beer garden, and Pier Park, a small amusement park set on the upper deck beside the Crystal Gardens. Cultural attractions include the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Chicago Children’s Museum, and Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows. Sightseeing, architecture, and dinner cruises launch from the pier, and during the summer, there are even fireworks.
There is, in short, something for everyone. Seasonal festivals range from Tall Ships Chicago, the Inuit Show of Folk & Outsider Art, and Chicago Toy & Game Fair, to the Chicago Flower & Garden Show, Winter WonderFest, and Snow Days Chicago. I was in town for the latter two, which were more than enough to keep me busy during my visit. Winter WonderFest is an indoor winter festival, where you can ice skate, toboggan, ride a holiday train or carousel, climb a snowy mountain wall, or stand inside a snow globe…all in the warm comfort of the indoors. Snow Days Chicago requires you to get a little chillier, but you can snowboard, visit with penguins from nearby Shedd Aquarium, or attend the most spectacular attraction, the snow sculpting competition.
Chicago is fun to visit anytime, but there’s something especially enchanting about Navy Pier in December. There are holiday lights everywhere, and the pier is jam-packed with restaurants and shops. It’s a perfect place to spend a day relaxing and enjoying the season. Don’t worry too much about making a plan—you’ll find plenty to see and do just wandering around the pier. I will make a plug for the stained glass museum, which was a strange, wonderful glimpse into the old mansions of Chicago, through the art of Louis Comfort Tiffany and other masters.
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Chicago, Illinois (USA)
July 2013
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Chicago: CIBC Theatre
CIBC Theatre is located at 18 West Monroe Street in the Loop area of downtown Chicago.
The theater opened in 1906 as the Majestic Theatre, named for The Majestic Building in which it is housed. The Majestic was a popular vaudeville theater offering approximately 12 to 15 vaudeville acts running from 1:30 pm to 10:30 pm, six days-per-week. By the 1920s the theater had become part of the Orpheum Circuit and presented many famous vaudeville headliners including Al Jolson, Eddie Foy, Harry Houdini, Lily Langtry, and Fanny Brice.
In 1932, the theater closed during the Great Depression. In 1945, the Shubert Organization purchased the venue, remodeled, and reopened it as the Sam Shubert Theatre. The Nederlander Organization purchased the building in 1991, however, Chicago Public Schools owned the land until 1997 when Nederlander also purchased it. Between January 2005 and May 2006, the theater underwent restoration and a name change to the LaSalle Bank Theatre and floors 4-21 of the adjoining office building were converted to the Hampton Inn Majestic Hotel. The hotel & theatre share the building, with the theatre on floors 1-6 & the hotel on floors 4-21.
As the first theater built in Chicago after the Iroquois Theatre fire, the Majestic Theatre was specially cited for its fire safety. This theater was also constructed to bring a more elegant audience into the vaudeville circuit. The architects, Edmund R. Krause and the Rapp Brothers (George and Cornelius), thought that by using decadent colors and textures they could attract a more upper-class crowd than traditionally attended vaudeville. The house of the theater also has two prosceniums. These were constructed to racially segregate the audience, as they prevent patrons on the ground level from seeing the patrons on upper levels. Also, by some sources, this theater was once Chicago's tallest building.
During the 2005–2006 restoration, elevators were finally installed within the theater. Previously, patrons had to exit the theater and use the elevators in the office building to reach the balcony. As part of the general revamp of the theater, paint chips were analyzed and the theater was repainted in what is believed to be the original color scheme. Most of the original fixtures, as well as the mosaic floor installed in the lobby when the theater opened in 1906, remain. Restorers also discovered a hidden archway in the lobby concession space during their work. This elaborately decorated arch had been walled-over years ago and was forgotten until construction began. The theater now holds 1,800 seats.
This theater has been home to many pre-Broadway tours and world premieres. Michael Crawford played a one-night benefit concert for the newly restored theater's opening night May 24, 2006. Martin Short performed in his sketch comedy satire Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me for two weeks in July 2006. High School Musical premiered in July 2007 during its pre-Broadway tour. Jersey Boys began a 28-month run at the theater in October 2007, followed by the pre-Broadway premiere of Cyndi Lauper's Kinky Boots in October and November 2012. The theater hosted a sit-down production of The Book of Mormon which officially opened on December 19, 2012, and played through October 6, 2013. In December 2015, it began the premiere engagement of a new musical Gotta Dance directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell and starring Georgia Engel, Stefanie Powers, Lillias White and Andre DeShields. The production played through January 17, 2016. The theater is hosting a resident production of Hamilton that started September 27, 2016.
As the Shubert Theater, the venue hosted the premiere of The Goodbye Girl in 1993 prior to its Broadway run. The show was an adaption by Neil Simon of his screenplay of the same name with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by David Zippel and starred Bernadette Peters and Martin Short. In July 1995, the stage adaption of Victor/Victoria premiered starring Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts and Michael Nouri. It ran until September when it moved to New York. In December 2001, John Lithgow starred in Sweet Smell of Success. Movin' Out, based on the songs of Billy Joel and conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp, premiered in June 2002. The final production before renovation was Monty Python's Spamalot which began its pre-Broadway run in December 2004. The production was directed by Tony and Academy Award-winner Mike Nichols and starred David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry and Hank Azaria.