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With the Central Park as a template, Balaban & Katz built more than 50 theaters in the Chicago area. In 1968, Benny Goodman, the famed “King of Swing,” recalled making his first paid ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The Uptown Theatre opened in 1925 as a movie and Vaudeville house for the Balaban & Katz movie chain. The massive venue at 4816 N. Broadway was designed by brothers Cornelius and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Theatre is ... The theater first opened as a dazzling movie palace that was part of the Balaban & Katz theater empire. Silent films were shown along with full ...

In December 2018, the city of Chicago ... Uptown Theatre, a stunning 1925 entertainment venue with an incomparably gorgeous interior that befitted its status as the crown jewel of the Balaban ...

His uncles owned the Balaban And Katz Theater group in Chicago, which ran both the massive Chicago and Uptown Theaters as movie palaces, and one of them, Barney Balaban, was the president of ...