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Aurora, Illinois: Saturday Nights' Outdoor Movies Saved by Creative Thinking

Welcome back! If you are interested in starting your own outdoor movie event or Open Air Cinema rental business, you can find lots of tips and resources in the Open Air Cinema Community, or contact us directly.Sunset Cinema of LaSalle has been providing Super Screen Saturday Nights in Phillips Park since 2007, showing free outdoor [...]

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Springfield, Illinois: Kung Fu Panda Just Part of Outdoor Movie Line Up

“Kung-Fu Panda,” the second feature film in the Movie in the Park Summer series provided by the Springfield Park District, will be shown Friday. The movie will begin at dusk at Comer Cox Park, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Capitol Avenue, on a giant outdoor screen. Additional movies include “Madagascar 2: Escape from Africa,” [...]

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Earlville, Illinois: Locals Nostalgic Over Outdoor Movies

In 1958, when I was 5 years old, my father took me in my pajamas to the Galesburg Drive-In Theater. There, munching mouthfuls of popcorn, I watched my first outdoor movie. Of course, I have no memory what was playing or much else about that night, but I do remember at one point he took [...]

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