Paramount Pictures used the Art Deco structure of Aurora's Paramount Theatre, as a prototype for theaters built all over the country. Today, roughly 150,000 patrons frequent the theater’s silver screens and attend events there each year.

Opened in 1931,the Paramount Theatre in Aurora was the first air-conditioned building outside of Chicago. Paramount Pictures used the Art Deco structure as a prototype for theaters built all over the country, and even today, roughly 150,000 patrons frequent the theater’s silver screens and attend events there each year.

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