Star Theatre

Grove Avenue,
Elgin, IL 60120

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Styles: Greek Revival

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Star Theatre

The Star Theatre was built as a vaudeville house in 1906 and later became one of Elgin’s first movie houses. The Star was located next door to the recently-demolished Crocker Theatre. The Star Theatre was torn down for a parking lot in 1956.

Contributed by Brendan

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BrendanM
BrendanM on December 2, 2006 at 4:17 pm

Here is a picture of the Star Theatre, just south of the Crocker Theatre. I appologize for the bad picture quality

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Elginfan
Elginfan on April 14, 2007 at 5:32 pm

The Star Theatre was constructed in the Greek Revival style.

Elginfan
Elginfan on May 15, 2007 at 11:31 am

The Star Theatre was built using the Greek Revival style. The theater showed vaudville up until 1924 when the owner of the Crocker Theater (next door) bought the building and converted it to retail. The building was later torn down by the Joseph Spiess Department Store in 1956 for a parking lot.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on May 15, 2007 at 12:02 pm

The Star Theatre closed in May 1929 with the Western movie “Singer Jum McKee starring Bill Hart. It was converted into a store and as mentioned above by ThatOneGuy was torn down in 1956.

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on May 15, 2007 at 12:04 pm

That movie was titled “Singer Jim McKee”. Sorry for the typo.

BrendanM
BrendanM on November 21, 2007 at 4:11 pm

Later on in the Star’s history, a large balcony was added bringing the total seating capacity to 1,100.

BrendanM
BrendanM on January 20, 2008 at 5:26 pm

This theater was originally called the Star Vaudeville Theater.

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