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Uptown Theatre

2002 Photo from the Adam Martin collection

4814-16 N Broadway
Chicago IL 60640

	Record #6277
Opened: August 18, 1925 Closed: 1981 Current Use: Demolished:	Capacity: 4381 seats Architect(s): Rapp & Rapp Architectural Style(s): Spanish Baroque National Register: 1986 Current Organ: none
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The massive Spanish baroque Uptown opened in 1925 as a vaudeville and movie house. Concerts took over in the 1970s and early 1980s before the theater closed. It has sat shuttered and in disrepair for nearly two decades, but a drive to renovate the theater is under way.

With over 46,000 square feet, the Uptown is reputed to be the largest free-standing theater in the country. It would cost about $110 million to build the same theater today.

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2002 photos from the Adam Martin collection.

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Photos from the Paul Warshauer collection.

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Last updated 2004-10-31.

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