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Established on June 18, 1904, Chicago’s Pekin Theatre was the first black owned musical and vaudeville stock theatre in the United States. Between 1904 and around 1915, the Pekin Club and its Pekin Theatre served as a training ground and showcase for Black theatrical talent, vaudeville acts, and musical comedies.
As The Charlotte Observer looks back on the stories of the city’s first Black club, Excelsior, we gathered a list of Black-owned hot spots of today.
The Club Alabam in Los Angeles was a black-owned club that hosted major acts who performed in front of integrated crowds. It was located next door to the black-owned Dunbar Hotel , which accepted black guests and allowed black performers at the Club to be comfortably lodged.
Politico reported that Chicago's once wealthy Black community has dramatically declined with the shuttering of many Black-owned companies. [50] Among the 10 US cities with the largest Black populations in 2000, Chicago saw the second highest decline after Detroit, with a net departure of 261,763 Black residents from 2000-2020. [ 47 ]
Located at 206 South Jefferson Street in Chicago, [3] the club was made out of a three-story former factory. The Warehouse drew in around five hundred patrons from midnight Saturday to midday Sunday. The Warehouse was patronized primarily by gay black and Latino men, [4] who came to dance to disco music played by the club's resident DJ, Frankie ...
The Black Orchid was an upscale Chicago nightclub that flourished in the mid to late 1950s where, according to print media critics, Johnny Mathis got his first big break. [1] The club opened in 1949. The Black Orchid was declared bankrupt in July 1959, closed, and never reopened. [ 2 ]
This is a category for private social clubs, present and historical, in Chicago. It is not for nonprofit organizations, political parties, or businesses. Pages in category "Clubs in Chicago"
The Great Migration increased Illinois’ black population by 81% from 1920 to 1930. [4] Many African Americans would reside in Chicago where they would build communities in the South and West sides of Chicago, creating churches, businesses, community organizations, and more to survive and sustain themselves in the segregated city.