Wilmette Goes to the Movies
1914-1918
In the early years of World War I, Wilmette had two movie theaters.
The Wilmette Theatre was located at 1122 Central Avenue at the site still occupied
by a theater today. The Village Theatre was located at 1150 Wilmette Avenue
about a block away in what is now called the J. Clarke Baker Building. The theaters
opened within a month of each other in the summer of 1914.
Newspapers of the day, photographs and historical artifacts in the collections
of the library and Wilmette Historical Museum, show what people in Wilmette
thought about the movies, their community and World War I looming in Europe.
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