1847: The first permanent theater to be built in Chicago, Rice's Theatre, is opened. -Sarina A. Shane
October 26, 1921: The Chicago Theater first opened its doors
1922: The Goodman theater was established by a gift of $250,000 from William and Erna Goodman to the Art Institute of Chicago for the purpose of building a theater to memorialise their son, Kenneth Sawyer Goodman. -Sarina Shane
March 11, 1959: Raisin in the Sun was first performed
1929 The Great Depression Begins. -Sarina A. Shane
1933: The Chicago Theater was re-decorated for Chicago's World Fair Dawnn Walker
1939: World War II Begins -Sarina A. Shane
1880: the first hydraulic elevators were pioneered in Chicago in the 1880's, making tall buildings possible. -Sarina A. Shnae