Projectionist Walter Becker, from Lombard, switches to an intermission reel between films at the Cascade Drive-In Theater in West Chicago. | John Konstantaras~For Sun-Times Media
"Sinister" plays at the Cascade Drive-In Theater in West Chicago. | John Konstantaras~For Sun-Times Media
The Cascade Drive-In Theater remains open on weekends during fall in West Chicago. The movie theater has to raise $100,000 to convert its 50-year-old projection system to digital. | John Konstantaras~For Sun-Times Media
John Morgan, of St. Charles, works the admission booth at the Cascade Drive-In Theater in West Chicago. The movie theater has to raise $100,000 to convert its 50-year-old projection system to digital. | John Konstantaras~For Sun-Times Media
A speaker at the Cascade Drive-In Theater in West Chicago. The movie theater has to raise $100,000 to convert its 50-year-old projection system to digital. | John Konstantaras~For Sun-Times Media
Projectionist Walter Becker, of Lombard, gets a 35mm projector ready for a showing at the Cascade Drive-In Theater. The movie theater has to raise $100,000 to convert its 50-year-old projection system to digital. | John Konstantaras~For Sun-Times Media
Jeff Kohlberg, owner of the Cascade Drive-In Theater, stocks the concession stand in West Chicago. | John Konstantaras~For Sun-Times Media
Anthony Wagner, of Bartlett, delivers a couple of iced drinks in concessions before a show at the Cascade Drive-In Theater in West Chicago. | John Konstantaras~For Sun-Times Media
"Sinister" plays at the Cascade Drive-In Theater in West Chicago. The movie theater has to raise $100,000 to convert its 50-year-old projection system to digital. | John Konstantaras~For Sun-Times Media
An expensive change in movie-projection technology could become the coup de grace that finally kills off the few remaining drive-in movie theaters and old-style downtown movie houses. The studios that distribute Hollywood “films” have announced that during 2013, they will stop distributing movies on expensive, …
