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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

A replica of Warsaw's Royal Castle clock tower rises over the Kennedy Expressway, marking the movie palace that became the capitol of Polish Chicago. The Copernicus Center at 5216 West Lawrence Avenue in Jefferson Park opened on 27 June 1930 as the Gateway Theatre, a deluxe Balaban and Katz house designed by Mason Rapp of the great theatre firm Rapp and Rapp - the Chicago Herald-Examiner devoted a full page to proclaiming it the most acoustically perfect theatre in the world, and a week of neigh...