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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	Site Menu Home Introduction Bright-Light Districts Leisure Venues Notable Events Research Links Bookstore Table of Contents About this Site Copyrights/Citations Newest Entries Century of Progress Lord's The Hub Lakeside Theater Uptown Hotels "Voice of the Movie Fan" Updated Entries Pantheon Theater The Fair Mandel Brothers New Books · 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) · Suellen Hoy, Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006) · Ann Durkin Keating, Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005) · Timothy B. Spears, Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005) · James R. Grossman, ed., The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004) Search Now:
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