POTENTIAL WIN: Increased Support For Central Park Theater Restoration (Chicago 7 2012)

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Central Park Theater / House of Prayer Church of God in Christ, 1917, Rapp & Rapp, 3535 W Roosevelt Road. Photo Credit: Tom Harris

The push to rehab this historic Chicago theater is gaining renewed traction; The latest effort to save Balaban & Katz’s first movie palace in North Lawndale could cost up to $25 million and would incorporate a community center. But will it go the way of other floundering theater preservation projects? Elyssa Cherney, Crain’s Chicago Business, 11/10/21

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