President Theater

343 E. 55th Street,
Chicago, IL 60637

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btkrefft
btkrefft on December 9, 2008 at 9:21 am

An article in the Chicago Tribune dated 8/26/11 states that the Louise Amusement Company purchased the President Theatre from Issac A. Levinson for $50,000 and added it to its chain of “amusement houses” that also included at that time the Monroe (Monroe Ave. & 55th Street), the Ellis (Ellis Ave. & 63rd Street), the Century (West Madison & Robey Streets), and the Apollo (47th Street & Forrestville Ave.). The article says that the President “will be conducted as a high class vaudeville house”.

btkrefft
btkrefft on June 16, 2004 at 8:34 am

Here is a new link to that photo from 11/03 on which the old link expired:
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btkrefft
btkrefft on November 19, 2003 at 8:52 pm

Here’s a link to a circa-1916 photograph of the President on a snowy day from the Chicago Daily News collection of the Library of Congress.