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The Chicago Theatre (pictured), the oldest surviving grand movie palace, opened.
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Chicago Theatre
Theater in Chicago, Illinois, United States
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. Built in 1921, the Chicago Theatre was the flagship for the Balaban and Katz (B&K) group of theaters run by…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Movie palace
Type of movie theater
A movie palace is a large, elaborately decorated movie theater built from the 1910s to the 1940s. The late 1920s saw the peak of the movie palace, with hundreds opening every year between 1925 and 1930. With the rise of television in the 1950s, movie attendance dropped, while…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)