The story
The City bought the shuttered theatre in 2018 for $1.3 million, and with support from Rivers Casino renovated it between November 2019 and October 1, 2021. Arcada Theatre operator Ron Onesti runs it as a live concert venue with 958 seats and two attached restaurants.
Everything that was here
- 2021–present · still open
Des Plaines Theatre (Onesti Entertainment)Theater
After a $6.7 million city-funded restoration, the theatre reopened on Halloween night 2021 with Kevin Costner & Modern West.
See the map in 2022 → - 1925–2014
Des Plaines TheatreTheater
Des Plaines' first cinema opened August 9, 1925 with a silent film and five vaudeville acts.
See the map in 1926 →
Connected places
Bon-Air Cafe and Country Club
Wheeling, IL
art deco
SS Admiral
St. Louis, MO
art deco
Kiel Opera House
St. Louis, MO
art deco
Alabama Theatre
Birmingham, AL
Spanish-Moorish
Tennessee Theatre
Knoxville, TN
Spanish-Moorish
Casa del Desierto Harvey House
Barstow, CA
Spanish Renaissance
Explore the full web of connections on the map.
Nearby history
Sugar Bowl Restaurant
1494 Miner Street · 56 m away
Reopened in 2009 as a breakfast house under the original 1957 neon.
The Choo-Choo
600 Lee Street · 72 m away
A 1951 diner where a model train delivers your burger basket, still running in its 1956 building.
Des Plaines History Center / Kinder House Museum
781 Pearson Street · 319 m away
The city's history museum has lived in a relocated 1907 mansion since 1978.
McDonald's No. 1 Store (Ray Kroc Franchise)
400 Lee Street · 482 m away
Maine North High School
9511 Harrison St, Des Plaines, IL 60016 · 1.0 km away
Des Plaines Methodist Camp Ground
1250 Campground Road · 1.2 km away
One of the oldest continuously used Methodist camp meeting grounds in the Chicago area, founded in 1860 and listed on th
Know something about Des Plaines Theatre (Onesti Entertainment)? An old photo, a date, a memory of what stood here before?
Add it on the map