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Grand Theater

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Grand Theatre is a historic theater located in Wheaton, Illinois. It opened on May 25, 1925, with 1,000 seats, and hosted live drama, silent films, and vaudeville performances.”
Wikipedia article Grand Theatre (Wheaton, Illinois), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for DuPage County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 123 N. Hale St., Wheaton, 60187
When was it listed? August 2005
Category. building
Township. Milton township
National Register reference number. 05000872 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Grand Theater: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Warrenville Plant & Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dupage City Hwy. Dept. Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Glen Ellyn City Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Village of Lombard Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Wheaton City Pit	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in DuPage County

Storms near this property

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheaton, the town this property stands in, in 48 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 27 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 4 flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	1 hurt	A tree fell onto a moving car with a tree limb breaking through the windsheild and injuring a passenger who was transported to a hospital with minor injuries.
June 2007	Lightning	Wheaton	$100,000	A multi-family apartment was damaged by fire after a lightning strike near Naperville and Butterfield Roads.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	$30,000	The top of a huge tree was snapped off and crashed through part of a bedroom of a house causing significant damage.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	$15,000	A large tree fell onto two cars.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	$10,000	A tree and power lines were blown down onto a car.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	$3,000	Ten to twelve trees on the north side of Wheaton were damaged. Power lines were also blown down.
December 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	$2,000	Numerous tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	$1,000	Trees and power lines were blown down near County Farm Road and Route 38.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	A wooden utilitly pole with a tornado siren was blown down.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Wheaton	-	Main Street was impassable with approximately 10 inches of water between Indiana Street and Roosevelt Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	A report came in of multiple trees downed in Wheaton. Time and wind speed were estimated using radar.
July 2023	Hail	Wheaton	-	One inch hail was reported near the College Avenue Metra station in Wheaton. Time was estimated using radar.
May 2022	Flood	Wheaton	-	Multiple photos shared on social media showed street flooding in Wheaton. A few locations were flooded up to a couple of feet in depth.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	A photo shared on social media showed a large tree blown down on a house.
September 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	A tree and a power line were blown down near President and Chase Streets.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Wheaton	-	Several feet of water was reported in a park near downtown Wheaton.
August 2020	Tornado (EF1)	Wheaton	-	A brief tornado with peak winds of 90 mph touched down near Seminary Avenue and Scott Street and moved northeast where it knocked a roughly 50 foot steeple around to the north side of the College Church of Wheaton. The tornado then produced minor tree damage before lifting near Collage Avenue and Howard Street.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	A five foot diameter tree was uprooted and trees were blown down onto houses in the vicinity of Roosevelt and County Farm Roads.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	The top half of a large tree limb was snapped.
May 2019	Flood	Wheaton	-	Numerous roads were closed in Wheaton due to standing water.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	Emergency managers in DuPage County measured 62 mph wind gusts in Wheaton while a mesonet just north of Wheaton measured 59 mph wind gusts.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	Winds were estimated to 60 mph.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	Transformers exploded when an estimated 75 mph gust occurred near the intersection of Roosevelt Road and County Farm Road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	A tree was blown down on Manchester Road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	Tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
July 2010	Flood	Wheaton	-	A creek between Gables Boulevard and Woodlawn Street quickly rose one foot out of its banks with four to six inches of water on nearby streets.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	An eighteen inch diameter tree limb fell onto the roof of house on North Cross Street.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	A tree was blown down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	Trees were blown down at Wheaton College.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	Estimated gust to 70 mph.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	Numerous trees uprooted with an estimated wind gust to 90 mph at Dupage County EOC at Gary Avenue and Jewel Road.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	Estimated gust to 65 mph.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	Numerous small to medium sized branches blown down.
July 2006	Hail	Wheaton	-	Nickel size hail was reported at North Avenue and County Farm Road.
October 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	Power lines blown down across all of Dupage County.
October 2005	Hail	Wheaton	-	Quarter size hail reported near Butterfield and Naperville Roads.
August 2003	Hail	Wheaton	-	Reported at Gary Avenue and Geneva Street.
July 1997	Tornado (F1)	Wheaton	-	The tornado path started near Cantigny at Roosevelt Road and ended just southeast of the Danada Shopping Center at Naperville Road and Butterfield Road.Extensive damage occurred at the Danada Square West shopping center, where windows were blown out. Many large trees were downed and a large tree was uprooted. A few houses sustained some structural damage, with one house condemned because of major structural damage. Several houses also incurred damage to fences, decks, roofs and windows. One house lost its garage door and part of the wall to the storm.
April 2023	Hail	Wheaton	-	no account filed
May 2019	Hail	Wheaton	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Wheaton	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Wheaton	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Wheaton	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Wheaton	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Wheaton	-	no account filed
July 2003	Hail	Wheaton	-	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Wheaton	-	no account filed
July 2001	Flood	Wheaton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in DuPage County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Trinity Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	1978
Du Page County Courthouse	0.3 miles	1978
Blanchard Hall	0.5 miles	1979
Adams Memorial Library	0.5 miles	1981
Theosophical Society in America Headquarters	1.3 miles	2025
Chicago Golf Club	1.3 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000872 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
DuPage County	All 50 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.