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Home » Leisure Venues » Theaters » Crown Theater Crown Theater 1605 West Division Street Built 1909 Architect: unknown The Crown Theater opened in 1909 at the southwest corner of Noble Square, where Ashland, Division, and Milwaukee Avenues intersect. The Crown's auditorium and balcony could accommodate nearly 1,400 movie-goers per show. Internet Resources Photograph: "Crown Theater," 4 Sept. 1909 [Library of Congress] Page authored: 12 January 1997	Become a fan on Facebook. Site Menu Home Introduction Bright-Light Districts Leisure Venues Notable Events Maps Research Links Bookstore Table of Contents About this Site Copyrights/Citations Newest Entries Burlesque Theaters Star & Garter Theater Hopkins Theater Trocadero Theater Alhambra Theater Haymarket Theater Century of Progress Updated Entries Pantheon Theater The Fair Mandel Brothers New Books · Randi Storch, Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2008) · Robert Lewis, Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008) · Karen Abbott, Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul (Random House, 2008) · Michael Lesy, Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties (Norton, 2008) · Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2007) · Georg Leidenberger, Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor And the Bid for Public Streetcars (Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 2006) · Jeffery S. Adler, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 (Harvard Univ. Press, 2006) Search Now: Support this Site Show your support for this web site by making a donation.
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