Palace Theater
1826 S. Halsted Street,
Chicago,
IL
60608
1826 S. Halsted Street,
Chicago,
IL
60608
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Additional Info
Previously operated by: Indiana-Illinois Theaters
Functions: Art Gallery
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The Palace opened around 1915, on Halsted Street near 18th Street in the then mostly-Czech (now mostly-Mexican) neighborhood of Pilsen. The theater sat just over 400. The Palace lasted as a movie house until around 1950, and later was converted over to retail use.
Today the building houses an art gallery, known as the Chicago Arts District Warehouse, an allusion to Pilsen’s growing reputation as the city’s new artists' colony.
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HOUDINI played this Theatre Jan 8-13th 1923.
HOUDINI was here also FEB 6-11TH 1922
HOUDINI played here DEC 28 1914 to Jan 2 1915?
The building sure doesn’t look the part, but it seems to be the same one.
Here is a 1942 news story from the St. Petersburg Times:
http://tinyurl.com/674tmv
Wrong theater. That would be the current Cadillac Palace
OK, sorry about that.
This theater possibly had a Seeburg photoplayer for accompanying silent films.