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Originally Posted by the urban politician
Just out today: The Oriental Theatre will undergo a name change, and will now be called the Nederlander.
I'm also reading that there will be a new marquee!
WTF, how can they get rid of something historic like that? 
https://www.chicagotribune.com/enter...114-story.html |
I was just thinking about this yesterday as I walked past, dreading the day that PC would come knocking on the door of the Oriental Theatre. Didn't realize it would be so soon. Ugh. I can't even find any complaints about the name on the internet, which is astounding. The owners are apparently just being proactive.
The sign is a painstaking replica of the original sign from the 1920s, which was long-gone by the time theatre boosters brought the place back in the 1990s.