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Wintrust Arena at McCormick Square, previously referred to as DePaul Arena or McCormick Place Events Center, [6] is a 10,387-seat sports venue in the Near South Side community area of Chicago that opened in 2017.
Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. [1] Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City ...
The city sought donors to cover Gehry's work, [12] [13] and the Chicago Tribune dubbed him "the hottest architect in the universe" for his acclaimed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The Tribune noted Gehry's designs would not include such Mayor Richard M. Daley trademarks as wrought iron and seasonal flower boxes.
The Auditorium Theatre is a music and performance venue located in the Auditorium Building at 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive in Chicago, Illinois.Inspired by the Richardsonian Romanesque Style of architect Henry Hobson Richardson, the building was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and completed in 1889.
At around 12:30 a.m. on January 25, 1996, the scheduled day of the first preview performance, Larson returned to his apartment from a production meeting, and collapsed in the kitchen. [23] During the 3 a.m. hour, [a] his body was discovered by his roommate, who called emergency services and attempted CPR. [3]
The 27-23 vote came just weeks before the end-of-the-year deadline, avoiding what would have been Chicago’s first shutdown of the city government. The mayor needed at least 26 of 50 alders for a ...
Although the play was successful, after four weeks it left Chicago for New York City. Around the same time, a renaissance in Chicago theatre was taking place on the city's north side. [3] The Blackstone was dark from May 1986 until August 1988, when it reopened to Lily Tomlin's one woman show "The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the ...
CIBC Theatre is a performing arts theater located at 18 West Monroe Street in the Loop area of downtown Chicago. It is operated by Broadway In Chicago, part of the Nederlander Organization. Opened in 1906 as the Majestic Theatre, [1] it currently seats 1,800 and for many years has presented Broadway shows.