Lawndale Theater

This place is on private property. Listing for informational purposes only. Please do not visit without express permission from the land owner.

Though it's been commercially uninhabited since the early 2000s, the Lawndale Theater is an incredibly beautiful abandoned building. Located in North Lawndale, Illinois, it very much looks like a church, as its final days being used it acted as one. However, it was originally built to be 2,000+ seat theater in the 1920s. It's history also crosses path with Chicago's notorious Prohibition-era gangs, once under the control of a colleague of Al Capone.

Today, it sits tall and white, slowly fading into the mix of other abandoned, aging buildings. If you get an opportunity to take a peep inside this magnificent theater, be sure to take advantage, before history and humans take a toll on the structure, and knock it down forever.