Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1915 — CHICAGO THEATER BURNS. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO THEATER BURNS.

Academy of Music Destroyed With Loss of $175,000. (’hicago, February 12.—-The Academy of Music, Chicago’s oldest theater, situated in the center of the crowded west side, at Ilalstead and Madison streets, was destroyed by fire early today, with a loss of $175,000. It. was a Tour-story structure, erected 'in 1 870, and was the only theater not ruined in The great fire of 1871. In recent years the theater had beep operated as a vaudevillo house.