City of Chicago sues owners of historic Portage Theater over unauthorized repairs
CHICAGO -- The City of Chicago is now suing the owner of a historic, but neglected theater in the Northwest Side's Portage Park neighborhood.The lawsuit comes just months after the 103-year-old Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave., was named one of the most endangered sites in the state of Illinois.Neighbors are pleased the city is taking action.
As documented by Cinema Treasures, the Portage Theater became a second-run movie house in the 1960s—and was divided into two a two-screen venue with a wall down the middle of the auditorium in the 1980s.The Portage was shuttered as a movie theater in 2001, but reopened in a single-screen format again in 2006 and became a center point of the Chicago independent film community—notably hosting screenings by the Silent Film Society of Chicago.
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