Copernicus Center (Chicago, Illinois)

Copernicus Center
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AddressChicago, Illinois
United States
Coordinates41°58′05″N 87°45′31″W / 41.968096°N 87.758631°W / 41.968096; -87.758631
OwnerCopernicus Foundation
Construction
OpenedJune 27, 1930
ArchitectRapp and Rapp
Website
copernicuscenter.org

The Copernicus Center (formerly Gateway Theatre) is a 1,852-seat former movie palace that is now part of the Copernicus Center in the Jefferson Park community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The Copernicus Center is located at 5216 W. Lawrence Avenue.

The former Gateway Theater was designed by architect Mason Rapp of the prestigious firm of Rapp and Rapp, famous for their design of deluxe theaters not only in Chicago (Chicago, Oriental, and Palace Theatres) but throughout the United States. It is the architect's only surviving atmospheric theatre in Chicago.[1]

  1. ^ Frank Suerth (January 2005). "The Gateway Theater" (PDF). Jefferson Park Historical Society. pp. 14–15. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 27, 2011. Retrieved September 14, 2010.