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The Rialto Square Theatre, a palace for the people
Chicago Street, Joliet, Illinois
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The six Rubens brothers hired Rapp and Rapp, the architects behind Chicago's biggest movie houses, and dropped a Neo-Baroque vaudeville palace onto a working steel town's main street in 1926. By the mid 1970s it was close to demolition and a local campaign bought it back. It stands on an old alignment of Route 66.
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