Irving Theater
1310 S. Halsted Street,
Chicago,
IL
60661
1310 S. Halsted Street,
Chicago,
IL
60661
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The Irving Theater was built in 1912, in an existing early-1880’s commercial structure on S. Halsted Street in the historic W. Maxwell Street area. It was designed by architect Alexander Levy and seated just under 300. The Irving Theater was in operation at least through the 1950’s, and was later converted back to retail use, though in later years was vacant. The former theatre was demolished by 2007.
It is not to be confused with the much larger Irving Theater (originally the Irving Park Theater) in the Irving Park neighborhood.
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The Irving is now demolished, a casualty of University Village.
http://calumet412.com/post/42358089763/south-halsted-st-1956-chicago
1955 photo added, photo credit University of Chicago Photographic Archive.
In the early 60’s, I worked at a shoe store just north of this theatre, at 1306 S Halsted. The marquee was gone by then, but the building still showed signs of having been a movie theater.