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The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub from 1923 to 1940. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue (1923–1936), then briefly in the midtown Theater District (1936–1940). [ 1 ] The club operated during the United States' era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation.
UTC−5 (CDT) Congressional district. 12th. Website. www.unioncountyil.gov. Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 United States Census, it had a population of 17,244. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Jonesboro. [ 2 ] It is located in the southern portion of Illinois known locally as " Little Egypt ".
Barney Josephson was born on February 1, 1902, in Trenton, New Jersey, the youngest of six children.His Jewish parents had immigrated from Libau, Latvia in 1900. His mother was a seamstress and his father, who died shortly after Barney's birth, was a cobbler.
Cobden is a village in Union County, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt.”. The population as of the 2020 census [3] is 1,018, a decline of about 12% since the 2010 census. Cobden is regionally known for the mascot of its public school district, Cobden Unit School District #17, called ...
The Silkwood Inn, also known as the "Silkwood Tavern" as well as the "Half Way House" (due to its location approximately halfway between Shawneetown and Kaskaskia), was originally built by Barzilla (Basil) Silkwood, upon his arrival to Illinois from Kentucky, serving as an inn and tavern along the Old Shawneetown - Kaskaskia Trail that connected communities in Southern Illinois during the ...
Founded. 2004. Headquarters. 431 S. Main St. Hillsboro, IL 62049. Website. thejournal-news.net. The Journal-News is a newspaper based in Hillsboro, Illinois. It was formed by the 2004 merger of two Hillsboro newspapers: the Hillsboro Journal, which had existed since 1886, and the Montgomery County News, which had existed since 1983. [1]
Cherikee Red is a brand of cherry -flavored soft drink. Its name is a play on the name of the Cherokee Indian Tribe. The Cherikee Red brand debuted in 1969 as a product of Cotton Club Bottling and Canning Company in Cleveland, Ohio. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The product was initially bottled by Cotton Club, the A.J. Canfield Company in Chicago, the Crystal ...
The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins ' 1977 book of the same name. The story centers on the Cotton Club, a Harlem jazz club in the 1930s. The film stars Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, and Lonette McKee, with Bob Hoskins, James Remar ...