AMC Dine-In Yorktown 18

80 Yorktown Shopping Center,
Lombard, IL 60148

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Operated by: AMC Theatres

Previously operated by: General Cinema Corp.

Functions: Movies (First Run)

Previous Names: Yorktown Cinema, AMC Yorktown 18

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AMC Dine-In Yorktown 18

The Yorktown Cinema was opened as a twin by General Cinemas at the Yorktown Shopping Center on July 3, 1970. Two more screens were added on August 13, 1976. In June 1983 it was expanded to 6-screens. In 1997, the six-screen cinema was demolished.

In 1997/1998 it was rebuilt as an 18-screen theater and opened April 3, 1998 with 17 regular stadium seating theaters and one Premium Cinema.

The Premium Cinema featured a restaurant and a bar. It also featured airline-style seating. In 2002, AMC Theatres bought General Cinema.

Contributed by James Piscitelli

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GCCguy
GCCguy on June 4, 2008 at 6:46 pm

Take a look at this web page for some pictures of the Premium Cinema and the food that was available.

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rivest266
rivest266 on June 24, 2012 at 12:09 pm

The original twin cinema opened on July 3rd, 1970. I uploaded the grand opening ad here.

rivest266
rivest266 on June 24, 2012 at 12:09 pm

The 18-plex opened on April 3rd, 1998,

Xave
Xave on January 8, 2013 at 9:09 pm

The first movie I saw at yorktown 17 was “The Powerpuff Girls Movie”.

Scott Neff
Scott Neff on May 27, 2014 at 8:40 pm

An old internal document from GCC shows that they operated three Yorktown Cinemas in Lombard, IL.

Yorktown Cinema 6 at 80 Yorktown Shopping Center 7/3/70-4/6/97

Yorktown Cinema at 97 Yorktown Shopping Center 8/13/76-10/31/92 –

Yorktown Cinema 18 at 80 Yorktwon Shopping Center Opening on 11/7/96.

I assume that perhaps the 97 Yorktown address was inside the mall and the 80 was outside?

DAL
DAL on May 30, 2014 at 11:31 pm

The description in the overview has it correct. The building was built as a twin, then had two screens added onto it in ‘76. At some point (maybe '92, but possibly before) the large house was triplexed to make it a six. Then the replacement 18 was built on the site of the demolished six. It was never in the mall; it was always at the same site east of the mall next to Butterfield Road.

rivest266
rivest266 on November 9, 2016 at 5:24 am

April 3rd, 1998 grand opening ad in the photo section.

rivest266
rivest266 on November 15, 2016 at 6:03 am

The August 13th, 1976 grand opening as a 4-plex has been uploaded.

plugai
plugai on December 10, 2021 at 1:36 pm

I saw one movie at this theater back in 1979, “The Warriors” with my buddies. I will always remember leaving out of this movie when movie goers started chanting “Warriors… come out to play-ee-ah!” Years later I met Michael Beck, and Deborah Van Valkenburgh, at the “Hollwood Show.” All great memories.

50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on January 6, 2024 at 3:43 pm

Expanded to six screens in June 1983. The Yorktown would later become Illinois’s first THX theater in 1984.

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