CHAPTER 35 of THE COOLEST SPOT IN CHICAGO: A HISTORY OF GREEN MILL GARDENS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF UPTOWN PREVIOUS CHAPTER / TABLE OF CONTENTSÂ / NEXT CHAPTER Just 12 days after the Uptown Theatre opened amid a burst of hoopla in August 1925, the city issued a building permit for a dance hall down the… Continue reading The Aragon Ballroom, Dance Watchdogs, and Weird Echoes