Husk O'Hare's Wolverines Bud Freeman Dick and Jimmy McPartland Frank Teschemacher Dave Tough Muggsy Spanier Mezz Mezzrow

47th St Playhouse Lounge White City Amusement Park Ballroom Club Bagdad IVORY COAST 50th & Grand Blvd 6300 S. Parkway Blvd 49th St 51st St 55th St 58th St 63rd St South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway South Parkway THE PROMENADE Harry’s Show Lounge

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John Johnson brought out W.E.B. DuBois meets sporting, theatrical & traveling clientel the first issue of Ebony Louis Wirth & Harold from an ofce in Parkway Gosnell from the University of Chicago. soirees held in the Cayton apartment in the Katherine Durham Parkway was a requirement of Chicago’s L TRAIN TRACKS discusses her art with intellectual elite, both Black and progressive Richard Wright, Langston Chester Himes White Hughes, Paul Robeson, Claude Barnett, E. Franklin Vendome Frazier, Charles White, Willard and Archibald The Brass Rail Motley, Poetry readings and theatrical performances, Margaret Walker , Gwendolyn Brooks, Gordon Parks, Le Lovin's Hi Hat Skyloft Players

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47th St 49th St 51st St 55th St 58th St 63rd St Calumet Avenue Calumet Avenue Calumet Avenue Calumet Avenue Calumet Avenue Calumet Avenue Negro Rialto District

Sadie Bruce's dance studio 54th and Calumet Doo Wop quartet singing on L TRAIN TRACKS dance and music training the corner under street light Storefront Church Hurricane Show Lounge

Ebenezer Baptist Church WGES in 1945–46: Al Benson came on and Rent Party played Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, his Club Royal audience included about seventy percent of the Black population. WOPA/WVON L TRAIN TRACKS Kitchinette Apartments

708 Club

Big Bill Hill WOPA radio

Trocadero Lounge

New Rocket Show Lounge Bucket of Blood PROVIDENT HOSPITAL Garfield Blvd L TRAIN TRACKS 51st St 5114 S Prarie Ave 47th St 49th St 55th St 58th St 63rd St Prairie Avenue Prarie Avenue Prarie Avenue Prarie Avenue Prarie Avenue Prarie Avenue Negro Rialto District 6232 South Prairie Avenue

Bee Hive Lounge 1950s

El Rado Cafe at the Garfield Hotel 231 E 55th St Coleman Hawkins Eddie Lockjaw Davis Chrlie Bird Parker Milt Jackson Art Blakey Jazz Mesgs Theolonious Monk L TRAIN TRACKS

The Chicago Metropolitan Insurance Co.

Ambassadors (c.1941) Coleman Hawkins Williard Theatre 340 E 51st St Tiny Parham & Ikey Robinson with the Victor Recording Orch. Jack L. Cooper was the first pioneer in Chicago Black White's Emporium Radio. He held the fort on radio from 1929 to 1961. Teddy Wilson Albert Ammons Punch Miller

Golden Lily 309 E 55th St

Bo Didley 13 yrs playing guitar on Garfield Blvd corners 1940 47th St 49th St 51st St 55th St 58th St 63rd St Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Indiana Avenue Negro Rialto District Bucket of Blood The Poetry of the Negro, at the George Seymour's Jazz Record Mart Cleveland Hall branch, Chicago Public 1936-1940 1934-1936 Library. "definitive anthology," co- authored by Hughes and Arna Bontemps, John Kirby black & tan Swingland Cafeacute Dave's Cafe included works by Chicago Renaissance Albert Ammons poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Fenton Johnson, Tommy Powell and his Hi-De-Ho Boys Margaret Walker, Frank Marshall Davis, 1942-1947 Maxine Sullivan 3 floor shows sat night and Frank London Brown 1949 343 E 55th St Rhumboogie Joe Louis owner attends opening in Army private uniform Francois's 9 piece orch Dave's Dine & Dance Cafe 243 E Garfield Blvd Book Review and Lecture Forum broadcasts on WIND 2x wk Special Negro Collection T Bone Walker

Ray Nance Fletcher Henderson opened 1932 Vivian G. Harsh Joe Ziggy Johnson's Dream Revue Coleman Hawkins Pananma Cafe 307 Garfield Blvd Carroll Dickerson record label

George Cleveland Hall branch Chicago Public Alvin Dasant Hall rougher clientele than Dave's Library Century Club It Cafe Booker Ashford's "65" Club Bucket of Blood Michigan Garden Apartments 51st St & Michigan Ave 4801 S Michigan Ave 49th St & Michigan Ave 5450 S Michigan Ave 5515 S. Michigan Ave. 47th St 48th St 49th St 51st St 55th St 58th St 63rd St Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue Negro Rialto District Michigan Avenue 51st St & Michigan Ave

clientele mostly Negro Dave'sCafe E 55th St & Michigan Ave Sammy Stewart Ciro's Cocktail Lounge 317 Garfield Blvd Chu Berry Boyd Atkins Michigan Theater burned down by the mob 1930 Sid Catlett Erskine Tate clientele mostly Negro Fess Williams and his Jazz Boys

Garfield Blvd

c.1927-45 Jimmie Noone Joe Williams Floyd Campbell Two Gun Pete "Scoops" Carry

circular bar popular with the "social set"

Bacon's Casino Dance Hall Bucket of Blood Mae’s Dress Shop 4859 S Wabash Ave 47th St 49th St 51st St 55th St 58th St 63rd St Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue Peacocks Beauty Shop Shalimar Club 113 Tavern

Ernie Henderson s Chicken Shack

Spruce's Duck Inn Lounge "Everybody Goes When The Wagon Comes"

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Wentworth Avenue

Chicago Rock Island & Penn Central RR