PM&L Theatre

Built in 1914 as the Crystal Theater and known for decades as the PM&L Theatre, this Antioch venue carries a ghost story nearly a century old: a girl said to walk the building, flicking floodlights on and off and making strange noises. The story turned out to be an elaborate, long-running hoax — theater volunteer Elmarie Beno admitted to perpetuating it for years with help from fellow theater buffs Betty and Ken Smouse, having fun with visitors who asked about the ghost. A separate, unproven rumor holds that Al Capone had tunnels dug beneath the theater toward Fox Lake; while that specific claim has never been substantiated, Capone did keep a real summer house nearby on Bluff Lake.