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Go to the Body
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Rogers Park’s New 400 Theater pulled out all the stops to not only survive the past year but come out the other side even better.
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Now playing: a return to the movies
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After several pandemic pivots and herd immunity on the horizon, local movie theaters and film programs are returning to business not-quite-as-usual.
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