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

Versailles came to the Loop in 1926, survived vaudeville's death, Cinerama, a banquet-hall conversion and heavy metal, and emerged gilded again. The Cadillac Palace Theatre at 151 West Randolph Street opened on 4 October 1926 as the New Palace Theatre, the Chicago flagship of the Orpheum vaudeville circuit, designed by the legendary theatre architects Rapp and Rapp in a French Renaissance style inspired by the palaces of Versailles and Fontainebleau, its lobby lined with marble, gold leaf and br...