Globe Theatre
1139 S. Blue Island Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60608
1139 S. Blue Island Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60608
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Here is a 1912 photo from the Chicago Daily News of the Palace Opera House while President Taft was speaking there.
I found another bit of information on this theatre, from the Chicago Tribune, dated 12/21/34:
SLAYS THEATER PATRON FOR BLOCKING VIEW OF STAGE
Near panic spread through an audience of some six hundred in Glickman’s Palace theater, 1143 Blue Island avenue, last night, when Marcellus Turner, a colored amateur comedian, who was sitting in the audience, was shot and killed by a colored woman, Mrs. Ruby Britten, 1327 Hastings street. She told police that she and Turner quarreled because he blocked her view of the stage. Turner, she said, struck her and she drew a pistol from her handbag.
The Palace Opera House opened in 1911 and operated until 1915. It was demolished and a new theatre known as Glickman’s Palace Theatre was built on the site which opened in 1919. It was re-named Globe Theatre in 1935 and closed in 1948.
As the Globe, this was run by the H&E Balaban chain. The Palace Opera House was designed by Samuel Levy, later of Levy & Klein.
Also, the Palace Opera House was apparently originally a Yiddish theater, claimed by the Tribune to be the “largest in the west”. Also it was open at least into 1951, according to a fire notice. Today this whole stretch of Blue Island Avenue has been swallowed by UIC.
I’d contest that it was demolished; newspaper ads exist in May 1914, February 1916 (As simply “Palace”), January 1917, and February 1918,. Sanborn fire insurance maps from 1917 and 1950 likewise show the building as built in 1908 and show a capacity of 1433.