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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
CST Editorial Board

Roseland’s Michigan Avenue is poised for potential revival

A boarded-up mosque sits next to boarded-up storefronts and empty lots near East 113th Street and South Michigan Avenue in Roseland. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

If there’s any place in Chicago that deserves another lease on life, it’s the old Roseland Theater.

Built in 1914 at 113th Street and Michigan Avenue, the nearly 1,000-seat theater was among the city’s earliest movie houses. When it closed in 1977, the building managed to evade the bulldozer and served as retail and office space until 2018.

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