Midway Theatre
6250 S. Cottage Grove Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60637
6250 S. Cottage Grove Avenue,
Chicago,
IL
60637
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Located in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side on Cottage Grove Avenue between 62nd and 63rd Streets, this theater originally opened as a vaudeville house in 1909. The Hippodrome was known as the Midway Hippodrome (due to its proximity to the Midway Plaisance park) to differentiate it from a couple of other theaters called the Hippodrome in Chicago (such as Marlowe’s Hippodrome and the Lincoln Hippodrome).
It turned to movies in the 20s and by the early 30s, dropped the “Hippodrome” portion of its name. It continued to operate as a movie house at least into the 50s.
The Midway was also situated about halfway between two of Woodlawn’s premier entertainment palaces, which both were built a bit later, in the early 20s; the Tivoli Theatre and the Trianon Ballroom (the South Side “sister” to the North Side Aragon Ballroom). The Midway has long since been demolished, and today there are apartment buildings on the site.
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Bryan Krefft
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Does anyone remember the name of the ice cream parlor on 63rd near Cottage Grove that served giant bowls of ice cream in the 60’s?
This theatre would have been very close to the Trianon Ballroom. If anyone has pics of either they’d be greatly appreciated.