Uptown Chicago Resources
Club Lido was a popular night club in the 1920s. It was located at the corner of Broadway and Lawrence. Image courtesy CRCC collection.
Uptown Chicago Places
Alta Vista Terrace (coming soon)
Apartments and Apartment Hotels
- Belle Shore & Bryn Mawr Hotels
- Chelsea Hotel
- Edgewater Beach Apartments
- Leland Hotel
- Marine Drive Apartments
- Norman Hotel
- Hotel Sovereign
- Walter W. Ahlschlager’s Uptown Hotels
Aragon Ballroom
- “Northside to Get $1,000,000 Ballroom,” May 9, 1925
- “Gorgeous Bit o’ Hispanola for Uptown Dancers,” May 10, 1925
Curt Teich Postcard Factory
Churches, Synagogues, Mosques, and Temples
Edgewater
- Edgewater Chicago Mini History
- Remembering the Edgewater Beach Hotel
- Facsimile of a 1920s Brochure for the Edgewater Beach Hotel
Graceland Cemetery
Granada Theatre
Just within the border of Rogers Park, the Granada Theatre served the Uptown and Edgewater communities as well. The shameful demise of this magnificent movie palace in 1990 underscores the urgency facing the Uptown Theatre, the last movie palace on the North Side of Chicago.
Uptown Post Office
The Uptown Village Restaurant, also known as Uptown Gardens, was located at 4822 N. Broadway, next door to the Uptown Theatre. Many famous Chicago bands of the 1920s and 1930s played here, and the performances were broadcast over WMAQ. Image courtesy CRCC collection.
Marine Hospital
Tunnels of Uptown
Uptown Theatre
- Uptown: Portrait of a Palace (DVD Format)
- Sister Palaces of the Uptown — Chicago’s Balaban and Katz Theatres
- Balaban and Katz Magazine, 1925
- Balaban and Katz Television—WBKB
- Uptown Theatre History
- “New North Side Theater Completed, Turn on Big Sign,” August 16, 1925
- “100,000 to See Uptown District Pageant Today,” August 17, 1925
- “Uptown Chicago Pageant Festival of Fun and Color,” August 19, 1925
- Uptown Community Portrait 2005
- Student Produced Documentary Wins Award at Film Festival
- Uptown Theatre News
- Uptown Theatre Petition
