Comments about ISIS Theatre, Chicago: was it ever built?

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CSWalczak
CSWalczak on September 10, 2010 at 7:18 pm

I certainly cannot say for sure, but I think it probably was not built; if it was, it probably opened under a different name, and at a different location and there does not seem to be any real trace of it today. Aerial photos of W. 69th and S. Ada do show a large building that had retail on the first floor and two floors of apartments above on the NE corner, but nothing about it appears to suggests to me that a theater was ever part of it. The other corners today don’t suggest anything either that would indicate that a theater was once there, though the NW corner has a building not of the 1920s on it and also a considerable amount of vacant space.

The Park Theater in the Humboldt Park was born as the Isis, but if its entry here on CT is accurate, the name change occurred before 1920, so Isis might have been an available name. Most of the theaters in this general area of Chicago were around 63rd and Halsted.