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Christopher "Chris" Johnson - Tumultuous 2020

Christopher "Chris" Johnson has has worked at his family-owned Tivoli Enterprises since he was in elementary school. Since 2014 he has served as their CEO, running fifteen movie theaters across northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. Johnson highlights throughout the interview the different ways the movie theatre business was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. He outlines the beginning in March of 2020 and initial shut-down, as well as the supply chain issues they faced in 2021 and at the time of the interview in April of 2022. Johnson closes with a description of his personal experience with the pandemic.

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Johnson details the way the pandemic has impacted the movie theatre business over the past two years.

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