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The club derived its name from the Kingston Mines Theatre Company founded by June Pyskacek in 1969 at 2356 N. Lincoln Avenue [1] and named after Kingston Mines, Illinois, where the father of one of its actors, Jack Wallace, worked. Pyskacek asked Harry Hoch and a partner to open a café and performance space in the front of the building called ...
The Pump Room was a restaurant established on October 1, 1938 by Ernie Byfield.It closed in 2017, then reopened under different names. [1] It is located in the Ambassador Chicago hotel, formerly known as the Ambassador East, on the northeast corner of State Parkway and Goethe Street in Chicago's Gold Coast area.
Schaller’s Original Pump was the oldest bar and restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. [1] Located at 3714 South Halsted Street, the Pump was opened in 1881 by George “Harvey” Schaller and was owned and operated by the founder’s descendants until its closure in 2017. It was a local landmark in the Chicago South Side neighborhood of Bridgeport.
Sign inside the tavern Door to the tavern. The first location, at 1855 W. Madison St., opened in 1934 when William "Billy Goat" Sianis bought the Lincoln Tavern, near Chicago Stadium, for $205 with a bounced check (the proceeds from the first weekend they were open were used to fulfill the payment).
Man's Country was a chain of bathhouses and private clubs for gay men in Chicago and New York City. Man's Country/Chicago opened at 5015–5017 North Clark Street in Chicago on September 19, 1973, and held the title of Chicago's longest-running gay bathhouse when it closed in 2017. [1] [2] [3] Less is known about Man's Country/New York, located ...
River North is a neighborhood in the Near North Side, Chicago located north of the Chicago River, south of Division Street, and west of Wabash Avenue. [1] It is adjacent to the Magnificent Mile retail corridor. River North has become one of Chicago's top neighborhoods for nightlife especially on and around Hubbard Street.
Country Dinner Playhouse – Greenwood Village, Colorado, Dallas, Texas, Louisville, Kentucky, Scottsdale, Arizona Derby Dinner Playhouse – Clarksville, Indiana (since 1974) Desert Star Theater – Murray, Utah; listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places It was later closed down and demolished, but rebuilt and expanded into the ...
According to the same study, Chicago had 144 craft breweries, second only to Portland, Oregon which had 196. [7] In 2017, the Chicago Tribune reported that "the Chicago area has the most breweries in the nation, with 202 – topping Denver's 198 and Seattle's 168. The Chicago area includes small portions of Indiana and Wisconsin." [8]