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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Supertramp christened its second life, and half a century of rock history followed. The Riviera Theatre at 4746 North Racine Avenue, at the Lawrence-Broadway-Racine junction in Chicago's Uptown, opened on 2 October 1918 as a 2,600-seat Balaban and Katz movie palace - advertised that night as Chicago's newest and America's finest theatre. Rapp and Rapp designed the French Renaissance Revival house for the brothers Balaban and Sam Katz while simultaneously drawing the Central Park Theater, the bu...