“If you go to the corner of State and 27th now,” says Chicago historian Tim Samuelson, “you find a bunch of dirty parking lots. But if you went there in 1905 or 1906, you would find something very ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NORTH PEKIN, Ill. (WMBD) — Jeffrey Agan, the new property owner of the now vacant AMC Pekin-14 theater, came to the North Pekin ...

City of Chicago cultural historian, the great Tim Samuelson joins Justin to tell us about the “An Evening at the Pekin Theatre” event taking place in Bronzeville this weekend. Tim talks about the ...

Frequently called the “Temple of Music,” Bronzeville’s Pekin Theatre was the very first black owned and operated stock theatre company in the United States. On June 18, 1905, they opened the first all ...

In segregated Springfield, the Pekin Theatre was the only movie house that not only catered specifically to African-Americans, but was managed by African-Americans as well. The Pekin was at 811-15 E.