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The Lounge Ax was a music venue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, located across the street from Wax Trax. It was an important venue for live rock music, especially indie rock.
Few things have made as much news or elicited a stronger response in the Chicago bar scene than the closing of the legendary rock club Lounge Ax. After succumbing to the complaints of intolerant and jaundiced neighbors, combined with the corruption of His Majesty’s Alcohol Licensing Cabal and the offhand dismissal of a new landlord, Lounge Ax ...
Lounge Ax What it was: The legendary Lincoln Avenue rock club was essentially a hallway, a low ceiling tunnel that amplified the small stage at the back to gloriously loud levels.
In 1987, Chicagoans Jennifer Fisher and Julia Adams opened the Lounge Ax, a tiny club in Lincoln Park at 2438 N. Lincoln Ave. An unassuming, bare-bones entertainment venue, the club was located across the street from the famed Biograph Theatre, where John Dillinger met his fate 53 years earlier.
The Lounge Ax was a music venue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, located across the street from Wax Trax. It was an important venue for live rock music, especially indie rock.
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The shuttered Lounge Ax is only the latest casualty of gentrification along Lincoln Avenue and throughout the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. In fact, the club and its tattooed and pierced crowd had long seemed out of place among the boutiques and sports bars that now choke the area.