Park West
Park West is a concert venue located in Chicago, Illinois. The theater opened in 1916 as a vaudeville and movie theater by the Ascher Brothers. Currently, it can house up to 1,000 guests in a general admission setting.- Type: Theater building
- Description: music venue and former movie theater in Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Lane Court Theatre”, “Town Theatre”, and “Town Underground Theatre”
- Address: 322 West Armitage Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chicago History Museum and Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool.
Chicago History Museum
Museum
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Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society. The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum and library has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times. Chicago History Museum is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Park West.
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Nature reserve
Photo: TonyTheTiger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, also known as Lincoln Park Lily Pool, is an important example of Prairie School landscape architecture designed by Alfred Caldwell and located at 125 W.
Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Museum
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The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is a natural history museum mostly dedicated to children, located in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and operated by the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum is situated 3,100 feet north of Park West.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mid-North District and Lincoln Park.
Mid-North District
Neighborhood
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The Mid-North District or Midtown-North is a historic district in the Lincoln Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. The district was built from 1865 to 1900 by various architects.
Lincoln Park
Suburb
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Lincoln Park is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is located west of the public park Lincoln Park.
Old Town
Quarter
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Old Town is a neighborhood and historic district in Near North Side and Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. It contains many of Chicago's older, Victorian-era buildings, including St. Michael's Church, one of seven buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire.
Park West
- Categories: venue, music venue, movie theater, building, commercial building, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Chicago, Cook, Chicagoland, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.91858° or 41° 55′ 7″ northLongitude
-87.63744° or 87° 38′ 15″ westLevels
2Open location code
86HJW997+C2OpenStreetMap ID
way 210685942OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=theatreOpenStreetMap feature
building=commercialWikidata ID
Q7138140
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