Updated 1/25/2021 8:07 AM
Moviegoers are still waiting for the show to start at the beloved Cascade Drive-in, a shuttered theater in West Chicago trying to stage a comeback.
Almost four months after announcing plans for a second act, the property owner is now looking to reopen the drive-in this spring with its longtime proprietor. West Chicago s city council also has approved a zoning code request needed to bring back the outdoor cinema of yesteryear.
However, there are still a number of obstacles and costs, particularly with respect to infrastructure improvements, that impede the owner s ability to move forward with opening the Cascade Theater, an attorney for the land owner wrote in a letter to the city last week.
from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. good evening, i m lester holt in for brian tonight. we begin with a fiery and dramatic crackdown on anti-government protesters in turkey. an important american ally feeling the heat tonight. if you were watching cable news today, you saw it all unfold live. police moving in with tear gas, trying to remove protesters from istanbul s main public square. and protesters fighting back with gasoline bombs and fireworks. protests have been happening in turkey for two weeks now. remarkable not only for their size and fervor, but because the target of all that anger is a three-time democratically elected president. today things reached a whole new level. in the middle of it all has been our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. he joins us from above istanbul s taksim square where at this late hour, the air is apparently still thick with tear gas. richard? reporter: it is full of t