1931 picture of the theater

Rialto Theater

     Thae Rialto  Theater was a historic  movie  palace located at 123 West Church Street in Champaign, Illinois.  It was constructed in 1905 as the Russell Building.  In 1915 it was repurposed into a theater called Belvoir. In 1918, it was renamed the Rialto in September

     The original theater construction in 1915 was A.W. Stoolman.  The original theater was completely gutted and rebuilt from the ground up.