Chicago Theatre Preservation Alliance

08/26/2024

Time travel from 2015 to 2024 Ramova Theatre

10/02/2022

Covered by no local media, Richard Sklenar's passing is a great loss to Chicago and to the extended community of theatre historians.

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09/07/2022

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05/17/2022

JUST IN TIME FOR SUMMER!

The Uptown t-shirt with art by Mitch O'Connell is available again for a limited time. Order by May 31 and your shirt(s) will be shipped by June 10. (Not a fundraiser, just a cool shirt!)

Friend John Kiernan does great work on these hand-pulled, screen-printed shirts. You will not find these in any stores!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/OnThePointPromotions?ref=shop_sugg§ion_id=38139378

01/18/2022

They make a good case for making it a designated Chicago Landmark -- City of Chicago Department of Planning & Development

Polish Americans Joseph Barnas and Alina Bosak created the book, which leaders said will be the first comprehensive history of the foundation.

01/10/2022

Never stop talking about and promoting the Uptown!

https://wgnradio.com/bob-sirott/the-friends-of-the-uptown-and-the-mission-to-restore-the-landmark/

01/04/2022

I never hear of or think about Medinah Temple without shuddering about what very well could have been a facadectomy on a lackluster early 2000s tower. Here is one of the STUN-ing compromise plans floated by developer Steven Fifield, Ald. Burt Natarus (42nd-Deceased) and City of Chicago Department of Planning & Development.

There were many preservation minded people watching the fates of Medinah Temple and Tree Studios unfold as we learned how to safeguard and protect other landmarks.

https://www.jbachrach.com/blog/2021/12/28/huehl-amp-schmid-an-overlooked-architectural-firm-that-shouldnt-be

11/17/2021

Remember Small Business Saturday, Nov. 27.

06/26/2021

Tastes have changed!

05/21/2021

The only current job posting for the gutted Chicago Theatre workforce:

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSG Entertainment) is a leader in live entertainment experiences. The Company presents or hosts a broad array of events in its diverse collection of venues: New York’s Madison Square Garden, Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall and...

05/13/2021

A touch of the Prairie School amidst a monumental Gothic Art Deco theatre and commercial block, c.1928.

The Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Illinois. Architects Harold Zook and William F. McCaughey, with sculptural elements by Alfonso Iannelli.

Reopened and hosting a silent film classic last night:

05/07/2021

Caruso and Sousa played here. Disney's Fantasia was recorded here.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra preferred it for recording over Orchestra Hall.

You remember the Shrine Circuses, the Bozo Show reunion and the Dalai Lama's visit. Maybe your class had its commencement ceremony here.

This was Chicago's 4,200-seat, acoustically renowned Shrine and civic auditorium, built as a perpetual gift to its residents, "to bring sunlight into life's dreary places."

On land give to the Medinah Shriners by the Judge Lambert Tree family. On the site of their home and adjacent to the artist studios they built to entice artists to stay here following the World's Columbian Exposition.

https://chicago.eater.com/2021/4/23/22400137/medinah-temple-redevelop-holocene-chicago-food-hall-retail?fbclid=IwAR0ZX_g5bIWCpswdXc-XMfy-3TDP8bAsmOge644wMdZzQa8USyiNUerlrX4

Holocene Chicago is described as an extended pop-up with rotating food and retail