The Ford Center for the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois / West Randolph Street, 4
Opened on the site on the former Colonial Theatre (the renovated and reopened incarnation of the Iroquois Theatre, which had a massive fire on December 30, 1903 in one of the biggest fire disasters in American history), this theater opened in 1926 as a film theater, but ultimately closed in the 1970s. It was renovated and restored as a live theater in 1998 under the sponsorship of Ford Motor Company.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Theatre_(Chicago)
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Coordinates:   41°53'5"N   87°37'43"W
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