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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

Chicago's convention-hall theatre has outlived a fire and six decades of fashion. The Arie Crown Theater opened in February 1961 as the 5,086-seat Big Theater of the brand-new McCormick Place, staging twice-daily shows for the Chicago Auto Show; that June the trustees named it for Arie Crown, the Lithuanian immigrant merchant and philanthropist whose family fund - led by his son, industrialist Henry Crown - had underwritten the hall. The catastrophic McCormick Place fire of January 1967 closed ...