Who owns The Chicago Theatre?
The Chicago Theatre is owned by MSG Entertainment (the United States, NYSE: MSGE), which has owned the brand since 2007.[1]
Evidence: Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-12, SEC EDGAR, 12 August 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, Chicago
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Live & sport › Live events & ticketing
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: MSGE
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About The Chicago Theatre
The Chicago Theatre is the 1921 theatre of about 3,600 seats that MSG Entertainment bought in October 2007, and the only one of its five venues outside New York. Unlike Radio City and the Beacon, which it leases, it is owned by the company. It is the company's only venue in Chicago.
What MSG Entertainment's annual report says about The Chicago Theatre
Sentences about The Chicago Theatre from MSG Entertainment's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Our venues also attract family shows and theatrical productions, which have included: ANNIE, Twas the Night Before by Cirque du Soleil and Paw Patrol Live! , all of which have played at both The Chicago Theatre and the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden.
The Chicago Theatre In October 2007, to provide us with an anchor for content and distribution in a key market in the Midwest, we purchased The Chicago Theatre, a legendary venue with approximately 3,600 seats.
The Chicago Theatre, which features its famous six-story-high "C-H-I-C-A-G-O" marquee, was built in 1921 and designed in the French Baroque style by architects Cornelius W.
How often MSG Entertainment names The Chicago Theatre in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of The Chicago Theatre
- 2007 – present MSG Entertainment [1] verified
Where The Chicago Theatre sits in MSG Entertainment
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by MSG Entertainment
MSG Entertainment controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
Other brands in live events & ticketing, and who owns them
The 35 brands in live events & ticketing on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is CTS Eventim, with 9; MSG Entertainment has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Eventim Apollo | CTS Eventim | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Casino de Monte-Carlo | Monte-Carlo SBM | 🇲🇨 Monaco |
| Playdium | Cineplex | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| KCON | CJ ENM | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Live Nation Concerts | Live Nation | 🇺🇸 United States |
| AMF | Lucky Strike Entertainment | 🇺🇸 United States |
| The Battery Atlanta | Atlanta Braves Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Signal Iduna Park | Borussia Dortmund KGaA | 🇩🇪 Germany |
About the owner: MSG Entertainment
MSG Entertainment is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: MSGE.
Madison Square Garden Entertainment is a Nevada corporation that runs five live-entertainment venues in two cities: the Garden, the Infosys Theater, Radio City Music Hall and the Beacon Theatre in New York, and the Chicago Theatre. Sphere Entertainment distributed about 67 per cent of its shares to stockholders on 20 April 2023 and has since sold the rest, so it is no longer part of Sphere. In fiscal 2026 it hosted about 6.4 million guests at nearly 960 events. The Knicks and Rangers are its tenants, not its teams: they belong to MSG Sports.
MSG Entertainment: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 The Chicago Theatre and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; The Chicago Theatre is not one of them.
- 20th Century Studios — Disney 🇺🇸
- AMC — AMC Networks 🇺🇸
- AMC Theatres — AMC Theatres 🇺🇸
- AMF — Lucky Strike Entertainment 🇺🇸
- Adventure Island — United Parks 🇺🇸
- Antenna TV — Nexstar 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of The Chicago Theatre?
The parent company of The Chicago Theatre is MSG Entertainment, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is The Chicago Theatre American?
Yes. The Chicago Theatre originated in the United States and its owner, MSG Entertainment, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has MSG Entertainment owned The Chicago Theatre?
MSG Entertainment has owned The Chicago Theatre since 2007.
Is The Chicago Theatre still owned by MSG Entertainment?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, The Chicago Theatre is still owned by MSG Entertainment. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-12 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 12 August 2026; retrieved 2 October 2026.
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