The Patio Theater in Chicago

The historic, golden-age movie house on the north side of Chicago, The Patio Theater, which I wrote about here when it reopened after 10 years, is once again shutting its doors, due to a broken air conditioning system. Read more about it here.

The theater has become a great venue for classic movie screenings and special events.

Tonight's screening - the pre-code crime drama The Strange Love of Molly Louvain with Ann Dvorak- will be the theater's last show, perhaps for a long time, until someone decides to reopen the theater again, which may not happen.