Bolingbrook Cinema

Interstate 55 and Illinois Route 53,
Bolingbrook, IL 60440

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TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on March 27, 2011 at 6:19 pm

Another Plitt Theatre!

spiderland
spiderland on February 19, 2010 at 1:43 pm

One more thing: If you use Google Earth (not Maps), and input the above address(es), you can view historical Satellite data. The Mar 30 1994 map shows the theatre and Shopping Center in their former glory (Old Chicago was long gone at that time). The next date available is Apr 10 1998, and it’s all gone. Amazing how much changed in that short period.

spiderland
spiderland on February 19, 2010 at 1:14 pm

Argh. My last comment wasn’t clear about the location of the theatre. If you go a couple hundred feet north of the intersection of: Stevenson and Old Chicago Dr., you’ll be standing where the theatre was. It is now a street.

spiderland
spiderland on February 19, 2010 at 1:11 pm

Actually, the Menards is no longer there (it moved up north on Rt 53). Here’s where it all was: the Bolingbrook Theatre was located behind The Old Chicago Town Shopping Center, which was across the street (Rt. 53) from Old Chicago, which was an indoor amusement park. Everything was torn down (not all at the same time) except the K-Mart in the Shopping Center, which became the Menards that jimpiscitelli referenced above. To reference it all in Google Maps:

  • Old Chicago’s address was the SW block of: 53 and Old Chicago Dr. (torn down)
  • Old Chicago Town Shopping Center’s address was: 550 S Bolingbrook Dr. (torn down except for K-Mart)
  • Bolingbrook Threatre stood a couple hundred feet north of the intersection of: Stevenson and Old Chicago Dr. (torn down)
jimpiscitelli
jimpiscitelli on March 9, 2006 at 6:23 am

The only thing I know that it was located in the shopping center (in which a Menards store is located) on the East side of Rte. 53 and South of I-55. It was a small (kind of like a shoebox type of building) and it was located in the back of the shopping center.

corvetteguy1963
corvetteguy1963 on March 8, 2006 at 12:06 pm

On what parcel of land was this theatre?,what is on it’s site now?

jimpiscitelli
jimpiscitelli on March 7, 2006 at 5:43 pm

This theater opened siamultanously with the Orland Square theater.