Devon Theater

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Devon Theater Soundex Code D150

Devon Theater not to be confused with New Devon Theater

6225 N. Broadway Devon Theater

Closed

Demolished

1 screen

949 seats

Opened as the Knickerbocker Theatre by the Lubliner & Trinz theater chain circuit in 1915 in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood, the theater was later renamed the Devon Theater, though it was more than two blocks away from Devon Avenue. It actually stood on Broadway.

Around the time it was renamed, the operation of the Devon Theater was taken over by Essaness Theatres. It mostly served as a second-run house, and was quite plain. It continued to operate through the 1970s, and later housed a church for a time. The Devon Theater was razed in 1996 after the block was acquired by Loyola University’s expansion into Edgewater.