{"id":331,"date":"2011-11-15T14:36:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexingtonhomeschicago.wordpress.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2011-11-15T14:36:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T14:36:48","slug":"historic-des-plaines-theatre-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/historic-des-plaines-theatre-reopens\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Des Plaines Theatre Reopens!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-333\" title=\"315580_157227834361735_131472296937289_297028_6761568_n\" src=\"http:\/\/lexington-staging.graphiclanguage.net\/about\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/315580_157227834361735_131472296937289_297028_6761568_n1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/315580_157227834361735_131472296937289_297028_6761568_n1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/315580_157227834361735_131472296937289_297028_6761568_n1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">The historic Des Plaines Theatre held their GRAND OPENING on Friday November 11th, where attendees enjoyed hors\u2019 doeuvres, cocktails and musical entertainment, by The Shout Section Big Band.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><br \/>\nWith the flick of a switch, the marquee at the Des Plaines Theatre in downtown came alive at 8 p.m. to the roaring claps of an appreciative crowd. After being dark for nearly two years while workers undertook a massive renovation and restoration project, the theater\u2019s reopening was greeted with perhaps as much anticipation as the first time, around 86 years ago!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-334\" title=\"377441_187238044694047_131472296937289_392428_618533400_n\" src=\"http:\/\/lexington-staging.graphiclanguage.net\/about\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/377441_187238044694047_131472296937289_392428_618533400_n.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/377441_187238044694047_131472296937289_392428_618533400_n.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/377441_187238044694047_131472296937289_392428_618533400_n-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;\">The community is very excited to have this venue reopened, as are Lexington Park&#8217;s Sales Consultants, Vicky and Mary. \u00a0The ladies had an opportunity to have a \u201csneak peak\u201d during the renovation of the theatre, where they met with one of the owners, Dhitu Bhagwakar, as he discussed plans for the theatre&#8217;s future. \u00a0He hopes to create a community of arts organizations to bring the community together for a place to enjoy live entertainment.\u00a0 Even more exciting, our Lexington Park homeowners can take a nice stroll to enjoy this new enhancement to the downtown Des Plaines area.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The historic Des Plaines Theatre held their GRAND OPENING on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[79,84,146],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchicago.com\/about\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}