Illinois Theater of Jacksonville

07/24/2026

Returning for one week only!

July 24-30th

Check www.illinoistheater.com/movies/32 for all the showtimes!
Also be sure to check out our website for all of our other current and upcoming movies and other special events.

Historic Illinois Theatre in Jacksonville, IL featuring affordable first-run movies, classic films, private rentals, and special events.

07/21/2026

This week in our Free Summer Kids Movies series is a DOUBLE FEATURE!
Hotel Transylvania 1 AND 2!!
Wed-Fri @ 1pm, Sat @ 10am

We will have a 10 minute intermission between the 2 movies, and a total run time of about 3hr 14min. Hotel Transylvania 2 will start around 2:40pm (11:40am Saturday).

This awesome double feature is sponsored by Off/On The Square

Be sure to check out our website for all of our upcoming movies, special events, showtimes, private rentals, bulk popcorn, and more at www.illinoistheater.com

07/18/2026

# # UPDATE # #
WE ARE BACK OPEN!
But we will be under a boil order for a few days, so our drink options will be limited during that time.

07/18/2026

# # UPDATE # #
WE ARE BACK OPEN!
But we will be under a boil order for a few days, so our drink options will be limited during that time.

Due to a water main break we will be closed today, Saturday July 18th, for a currently unknown length of time. We hope to be open again this afternoon, but city crews are still hard at work trying to find and fix the break. Once we do reopen we will be on a boil order, and therefore have a very limited drink selection for a bit.

As soon as we have an update I will both edit this post, as well as create a new one.

Movies showing this week:

R - 2hr 52m

PG - 1hr 55m

PG - 1hr 30m

PG-13 - 2h 5m

R - 1h 50m

Coming soon:
The red carpet premiere for documentary by Jacksonville native Steven Snyder
July 30th - 5pm

July 31st

Aug 7th

Aug 14th

As always, you can find all of our currently showing movies, showtimes, and get tickets at illinoistheater.com
Directly on our own website is the only reliable place for our showtimes, google search summaries and other websites will likely be inaccurate.

07/12/2026

This week's movie in our Free Summer Movies series is
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Wed-Fri at 1pm, Sat at 10am

Free admission sponsored by KJB’s

Check out our website at www.illinoistheater.com for details on all we offer like:
New movies, showtimes, and tickets
Special events like these free kids shows, our Wizarding Wednesdays series, and the upcoming Middle-Earth Saga series
Private Theater Rentals
Bulk Popcorn ordering
and more!

07/10/2026

The live-action starts today!
Also playing this week,





Starting next Friday the 17th,

Our private rentals program is now up and running on our own website! You can find the details and submit requests at www.illinoistheater.com/private-rentals

Illinois Theater t-shirts are now available for purchase in very limited quantities.

Here at the Illinois Theater every ticket, for every showtime, for every age is only $5. And adding a small popcorn and small soda is only $6 more. Only $11 for admission, small popcorn and small soda? You won't find that deal at any other theater in the area!

Find all of our showtimes and get tickets at www.illinoistheater.com

Our website is the only place that is truly up to date on what we are showing and when. We are constantly coming across other sites and google search summaries that are very outdated and inaccurate, sometimes by multiple years.

Reminder that we will no longer be accepting gift certificates sold by the Eisentrauts starting August 1st. If you have any, come use them now.

07/08/2026

This week's Free Summer Kids Movie is The Angry Birds Movie
Wed-Fri @ 1pm and Sat @ 10am

Also showing this week:





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Join us on Wednesdays as we continue our Wizarding Wednesdays series with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at 5 & 8pm

We have officially added the 3 Fantastic Beasts movies to our Wizarding Wednesdays series after the 8th Harry Potter! Dates and tickets at https://illinoistheater.com/special-events/series/4

This one you won't want to miss. Starting Wednesday Aug 19th we will begin the Middle-Earth Saga. All 6 of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films, one week at a time. But we're going a step further. We're going to be showing the full Extended Editions of all 6 films! The versions that you never got to see on the giant 25ft screen!
Find the dates and times, and get your tickets early at https://illinoistheater.com/special-events/series/3

As always, you can find all of our current and upcoming movies and showtimes, and get tickets, at www.illinoistheater.com where it will ALWAYS be the true up to date version of what we're playing (unlike Google's search summaries that are clearly several years out of date).

07/04/2026

Due to a projector giving me issues I am having to adjust our showtimes schedule for tomorrow, July 4th. You will always find our most up-to-date showtimes at illinoistheater.com/movies

July 4th only:
The Garfield Movie - Free Showing - 10am
Minions & Monsters - 12:30pm, 2:45pm, 5pm
Young Washington - 10:30am, 1:30pm, 4:15pm, 7pm
Toy Story 5 - 1:45pm & 4:15pm
Masters of the Universe - 7pm
Supergirl - 10:30am & 4:15pm
Tuner - 10am & 7pm
Michael - 1:30pm & 7pm

I hope to get it running again before tomorrow's over, but there's a chance Sunday's schedule will get adjusted too, so again, check OUR website, not the google ai results.

07/03/2026

starts today!
Find all of our showtimes and get tickets ahead at https://illinoistheater.com/movies/9-young-washington

07/01/2026

Thanks to all the banana-loving friends we're had here at the theater lately we've invented a new Tropical Sno flavor option! Exclusively here at the Illinois Theater is the concoction
"The Minion"
made with banana of course, and blue raspberry. Stop in and get one any time our marquee is on!