Some key figures in the development of improvisational theatre are Avery Schreiber, Viola Spolin and her son Paul Sills, founder of Chicago's famed Second City troupe and originator of Theater Games, and Del Close, founder of ImprovOlympic ( along with Charna Halpern ) and creator of a longform improv format known as The Harold.

The play Bald Grace by Marki Shalloe debuted at Chicago's Stockyards Theatre in 2005 and was featured at Atlanta's Theatre Gael ( America's oldest Irish-American theatre ) in 2006.

: Radio drama ( as distinguished from theatre plays boiled down to kilocycle size ) began at midnight, in the middle thirties, on one of the upper floors of Chicago's Merchandise Mart.

She also senses Minnie and Sven's disapproval of her interest in Chicago's recreational opportunities, particularly the theatre.

In 2003, Time named OSF as the second best regional theatre in the United States ( Chicago's Goodman Theater was first ).

Arch Oboler, who took over the writing of Lights Out when Cooper left, would suggest that Cooper was the first person to create a unique form of radio drama, writing, " Radio drama ( as distinguished from theatre plays boiled down to kilocycle size ) began at midnight, in the middle thirties, on one of the upper floors of Chicago's Merchandise Mart.

They are also known as " The North Siders " because Wrigley Field, their home park since 1916, is located in Chicago's north side Lake View community at 1060 West Addison Street.

Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 2156 N. Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa community area to Irish-Canadian father Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney, who was of German and English descent.

Analyst Robert Kuttner in the Huffington Post criticized the bailout as helping large Wall Street firms such as Citigroup while neglecting to help smaller community development banks such as Chicago's ShoreBank.

He had a strong base of support in Chicago's Irish Catholic community, and he was treated by national politicians such as Lyndon B. Johnson as a preeminent Irish American, with special connections to the Kennedy family.

Daley was supported by Chicago's traditionally Republican business community.

With support from Franklin D. Roosevelt on the national level, Cermak gradually wooed members of Chicago's growing black community into the Democratic fold.

In conjunction with the fair, Chicago's Italian-American community raised funds and donated the statue of the Genoese navigator and explorer, Christopher Columbus ( Grant Park ).

EasyGo Lake Transit's Green Route bus service has stops in the northern portion of Schererville, connecting riders to Highland, Hammond, East Chicago, Whiting, and Chicago's East Side community area.

The Julia Ward Howe School of Excellence in Chicago's Austin community is named in her honor.

Popiełuszko in the form of a symbolic gravestone in the shape of a cross was erected by Chicago's Polish community in the garden of memory next to St. Hyacinth Basilica.

After Bush claimed a central role in overseeing the collapse of the Eastern bloc of the Soviet Union, and aggressively promoting the successes of his own presidency and his importance as Vice President in the Reagan administration's role in Eastern Europe, during a speech at Chicago's Taste of Polonia, an attempt by Bush to carry Chicago's Polish community to win Illinois during the election.

In the early 1980s however, Chicago's political life was transformed by the ascendancy of U. S. Representative Harold Washington, a noted orator and a charismatic figure who helped unite the city's African-American community.

Gutiérrez's political activism and role as a rising leader in Chicago's burgeoning Latino community caught the attention of Chicago's first African-American Mayor – Harold Washington – who appointed him in August 1984 to the position of deputy superintendent in the Department of Streets and Sanitation.

Pullman, one of Chicago's 77 defined community areas, is a neighborhood located on the city's South Side.

Impressed with Guadette's character and leadership abilities, Egan believed him the right person to organize an area that the monsignor had targeted for such work: Chicago's West Town, a Polish-American community.

Gaudette went to work for Alinsky on Chicago's west side, organizing the Northwest Community Organization ( NCO ) in 1961, one of the hallmark Alinsky community organizations in Chicago.

The College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences is DePaul's largest college and is located in the Lincoln Park Campus, which occupies in Chicago's Lincoln Park community.

Jackson Park is a 500 acre ( 2 km² ) park on Chicago's South Side, located at 6401 South Stony Island Avenue in the Woodlawn community area.

Gage Park is one of Chicago's 77 well-defined community areas, located on the city's southwest side ; it is also the name of a park within the neighborhood.

The name " Albany Park " refers both to one of Chicago's 77 official community areas and the traditional name of a neighborhood within that community.

The newspaper relocated from Chicago's Englewood community to the west end of the city in Garfield Ridge in 1968.

The play was staged at Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater starring actress Martha Plimpton, who is credited with bringing renewed modern interest to the play.

The modern westbound ( Amtrak ) Empire Builder departs Chicago's Union Station in early afternoon, and travels north to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Bulliet played a central role in popularizing of modern art in the Midwestern United States, and in organizing Chicago's independent artists, who felt snubbed by the conservative tastes that dominated the Chicago Art Institute.

Chicago's workers made immense sacrifices for home ownership, contributing to Chicago's sprawling suburban geography and to modern myths about the American dream.

Chicago's present natural geography is a result of the large glaciers of the Ice Age, namely the Wisconsinan Glaciation that carved out the modern basin of Lake Michigan ( which formed from the glacier's meltwater ).

His 13 shutouts that year was a modern National Hockey League record that stood until Chicago's Tony Esposito recorded 15 in 1969 – 70.

The South Shore Line, which runs from Chicago's Millennium Station to South Bend, Indiana, has been converted to modern electric rapid-transit operation on the dense corridor between Chicago and Gary, Indiana but still runs essentially as an interurban through several small towns between Gary and South Bend.

In North America, contemporary sketch comedy is largely an outgrowth of the improvisational comedy scene that flourished during the 1970s, largely growing out of Chicago's The Second City.

As part of her comedic training, Louis-Dreyfus appeared in two of Chicago's best-known improvisational theater groups — the Practical Theater Group, and the renowned Second City.

The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990.

Dan Bakkedahl ( born November 18, 1969 ) is an American improvisational actor, comedian and teacher from Chicago's Second City.

Centerpiece attractions include a Ferris wheel, an IMAX theater, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Amazing Chicago's Funhouse Maze, the Chicago Children's Museum, the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows, and at the entrance to Navy Pier is a statue of Oak Park comedian Bob Newhart, sponsored by the TV Land network.

While at ISU, she met fellow theater students, among them John Malkovich, Glenne Headley, Joan Allen, Terry Kinney, and Jeff Perry, the latter two of whom, along with Perry's high school classmate Gary Sinise, went on to establish Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

He later worked as a photographer for Paul Stone, who specialized in photographing actors from Chicago's theater district.

In July 2004, after 90 years as a movie theater under various owners, Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater announced it had purchased the Biograph for use as a live venue.

The cost of outfitting a theater to accommodate the system was anywhere from US $ 15, 000 at Chicago's Cinestage theater to $ 1, 000, 000 elsewhere ($ to $ today ).

In the second half of 1979, Franchi performed his usual summer circuit, and appeared at Chicago's Mill Run Playhouse ; then back to the Front Row theater for a week with Dana Valery & comedian Mickey ShaughnessyFranchi became estranged from his wife, Yvonne, in 1978, and ( with their children now grown ) he moved back to his Manhattan apartment.

The Goodman Theatre is a professional theater company located in Chicago's Loop.

In 2000, the company moved into its new building at 170 N. Dearborn in Chicago's theater district.

Located near the intersection of West Madison Street and Crawford Avenue ( now Pulaski Road ) on Chicago's West Side, it opened on September 14, 1928, and was billed as the world's most beautiful theater for its stunning interior and exterior beauty.

Lead singer and keyboardist Dennis DeYoung described the concept album as a fictional account of Chicago's Paradise Theatre from its opening to closing ( and eventual abandonment ), ultimately serving as a metaphor for America's changing times from the late 1970s into the 1980s, with the songs following along with the history of the theater from its opening to its eventual closing.

While building his résumé in Chicago's theater scene, Brown decided to give Los Angeles a try and moved to the City of Angels where he has remained ever since.