Southtown Theatre

CTL-E-0941 · Venue · theater · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Rapp & Rapp South Side movie palace; theater-to-retail conversion

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PLACE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PLACE-001:PLACE-026; source research type(s): Movie theater. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/993; https://www.sixthward.us/2018/11/chicagos-extinct-businesses-carrs.html?m=0
http://www.sixthward.us/2013/11/photo-southtown-theater-englewood.html

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