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The
Crawford Theater, located on the east side of Crawford Avenue (now
Pulaski Avenue) south of Madison Street, opened on Saturday, 21 March
1914. It cost $150,000 to build and was affiliated with the Lubiner and
Trinz circuit of movie theaters. The theater was owned and managed by
Mark Heaney and the West End Amusement Company. Initally, the theater
had a seating capacity of 900 and featured a pipe organ. In May 1925,
Balaban and Katz acquired the theater as part of its purchase of
seventeen Lubliner and Trinz theaters. For many years, it was one of the
largest and most popular movie houses on Chicago's West Side. However,
the opening of larger, more lavish theaters in the immediate
neighborhood during the 1920s undermined the Crawford's preeminence.
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