Kimmel Theatre
213 8th Street,
Cairo,
IL
62914
213 8th Street,
Cairo,
IL
62914
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This 600-seat theatre shared a building located on 8th Street with the much smaller Bijou Theatre. Both theaters opened in 1911. The Kimmel Theatre closed in 1917, and moved to another location on 8th Street (later becoming the Jackson Theatre, and finally, Rogers Theatre). The Bijou Theatre survived until 1931. The structure that housed the first Kimmel Theatre and Bijou Theatre was still there with a modified facade in 2022, in use as an Elks building. It had collapsed or razed by 2023.
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Bryan Krefft & Ken Roe
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Google Earth shows the Kimmel repurposed as the Elks lodge as recently as 09/2022 - the theater’s pediment, although all the ornamentation was removed, retains its distinctive shape.
The theatre has collasped as shown in google images