Complex sentence: By this point, the theatre was turning out to be an almost all-Chicago project and Fuller broke ground on November 1,1927 and then on Christmas Day the "News-Sentinel" reported that the theatre was pouring concrete.
Split into simpler sentences: By this point, the theatre was turning out to be an almost all-Chicago project, and Fuller broke ground on November 1,1927. On Christmas Day the "News-Sentinel" reported that the theatre was pouring concrete.