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2007 – The Adler unveils its new Space Visualization Laboratory, bringing the latest images of space science to the public. [16] 2010 – The Adler begins transformation of the historic Sky Theater. [17] The renamed Grainger Sky Theater opened in May 2011. At the time, the Grainger was the most technologically advanced dome theater in the world.
The space center opened with a visit from James Lovell in 1986. [1] The cost of the Space center was 12 million dollars. The museum of Science and Industry in Chicago also opened an OmniMax theater in 1986: it was built inside the space center. [3] [7] The space center was remodeled and reopened in May of 2024.
The Cernan Earth and Space Center is a public planetarium on the campus of Triton College in the Chicago suburb of River It is named for astronaut Eugene Cernan (1934-2017), who flew aboard the Gemini 9 and Apollo 10 missions and, as commander of Apollo 17 , was the last astronaut to leave his footprints on the Moon.
Park Ridge’s 1928-vintage landmark Pickwick Theatre will become a venue for live performances as well as movies through a programming partnership with the nonprofit Copernicus Foundation ...
Space Entertainment Enterprise (S.E.E), the company co-producing Tom Cruise’s upcoming space movie, plan to launch a sports arena and production studio in zero gravity. S.E.E. has unveiled plans ...
The Film Center was founded as The Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972. It moved to its current location, 164 N State St. in the Chicago Loop neighborhood of Chicago, in June 2001; the Film Center was officially renamed during the move.
Because the Gateway Theatre had been the first movie theater in Chicago built exclusively for the "talkies," the Foundation decided to preserve the theater itself while remodeling around it. The "Solidarity Tower," with its matching façade, was erected atop the building which was modified to resemble the historic Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland ...
Facets maintains facilities in Chicago, where it was founded by Milos Stehlik as a non-profit film organization. The brick-and-mortar space includes a single-screen movie theater (referred to as Facets Cinémathèque), which screens "interesting" independent films [8] and "obscure" features. [9]