What is the current name of the Paramount Theater?
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The Logan Theatre opened in 1915 as the Paramount Theater
A single-screen cinema, the theater had seating for 988 in orchestra and balcony levels. In 1929 it was taken over by Essaness Theater Company, a local Chicago company known for opening "talkies" and renamed Logan Theater.
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