Okay not a really strong Hillary tie-in, but this magnicent art-deco building, the Pickwick, is still a movie theater. It's located about three blocks from the former Rodham home on Wisner Street, and less than a block from the First United Methodist Church of Park Ridge. (Those were the subjects of parts one and two of this photoblogging series.)
In 1975, the Pickwick Theater was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Still, there is a HRC connection to the Pickwick. From the Chicago Sun-Times in 2003:
Clinton, in her long-awaited autobiography, Living History, paints a picture of an idyllic childhood in the northwest suburb, going to the Pickwick Theater, attending high school at Maine East and then, when Maine South opened, becoming a member of the first class in the new school.
Next is Maine South High School.
Oh, on a personal note, I took my daughter, "Little Marathon Pundit," to her first movie at the Pickwick. We suffered through "Muppets in Space" there.
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