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The Checkerboard Lounge was a blues club on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, established in 1972 at 423 E. 43rd St. by L.C. Thurman and Buddy Guy. [1] [2] In 1985, Guy left the partnership and later established Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago's South Loop neighborhood.
The club closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [7] [8] Fans donated over $60,000 to a GoFundMe to help the club reopen. [9] Before the pandemic, Kingston Mines showcased a variety of blues by two separate bands, every night year-round, on two stages. [8] As of 2023, the club is open on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. [10]
It does so with items, neatly displayed, such as photos of the many performers at the club from the 1950s into the 1970s (an astonishing list that includes Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Mort ...
The E2 nightclub stampede occurred on February 17, 2003, at the E2 nightclub above the Epitome restaurant at 2347 South Michigan Avenue in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, in which 21 people died and more than 50 were injured when panic ensued from the use of pepper spray by a security guard to break up a fight. The club's ...
Stone Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 4,576 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ] Incorporated in 1939, the town was named for insurance magnate Clement Stone, who bought most of the land when it was still corn fields.
Prior to his death in 1983, Muddy Waters made Guy promise to "keep Blues alive". Guy says that Legends is part of keeping that promise. [5]Guy, who had previously co-owned the Checkerboard Lounge on the south side from 1972 until 1985, first opened Legends at 754 South Wabash inside the Loop, behind the Big Hilton on Michigan Avenue, hoping to attract convention attendees from the Hilton.
The nightclub was destroyed on December 8, 1955 when a fire started in a grease chute and spread through a ventilator into the club. 2 Mister Kelly’s was rebuilt and reopened on August 29, 1956 [6] with a new policy of standup singers. Previously the nightclub specialized in singers who played their own accompaniment. [7]
Alley entrance. Neo was a nightclub located at 2350 N. Clark St. in the Chicago neighborhood of Lincoln Park.Established on July 25, 1979 [1] Neo was the oldest [2] or one of the oldest [3] running nightclubs in Chicago and was a hangout and venue for a variety of musicians and artists, including David Bowie, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, the Clash, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and U2.