Plains Theater
604 N. Illinois Street,
Plainfield,
IL
60544
604 N. Illinois Street,
Plainfield,
IL
60544
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Previously operated by: Anderson Theater Company
Styles: Streamline Moderne
Previous Names: Esquire Theater
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This small, short-lived theater opened around 1941 as the Esquire Theater on the corner of N. Illinois Street and Chicago Street. By the late-1940’s, it was renamed the Plains Theater. It closed in November 1950, but reopened in Spring of 1951. It finally closed in 1963 and later was razed to make way for a church.
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Bryan Krefft
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Motion Picture Herald, Jan. 19, 1952: “The Plains, Plainfield, Ill., part of the Anderson circuit, has closed.”
“Closed in November 1950 and re-opened a few months later in the spring of 1951 due to “demand after 4 theaters closed in Joliet.” Permanently closed in 1963.” Additional history credit Plainfield Historical Society.
The Esquire Theatre first appears in the 1942 FDY, indicating a probable 1941 opening. Plainfield had a 250-seat house listed as the Alamo in 1928 and as the Almo in 1931, 1932 and 1933, but the town vanishes from the FDY after 1933.