Ha! So true.

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The list of performers here who went on to play enormo-dome stadiums is straight up bonkers.

Ad from a 1978 issue of Bright Lights magazine

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Let's hope no one ever says "bodega" around him. Hew boy.

My friend @rullirights.bsky.social wrote the play "Marbled," being performed at the Greenhouse Theater Center on Lincoln in Chicago under the direction of Melanie Ann Apel. Support local theater!

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RUSH performed at a music venue in a strip mall in Schaumburg, IL as part of their All The World's a Stage tour on August 26th, 1976, proving that every band has to start somewhere.

Photographs by Jim Bossier

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Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.

Before Jackie: Baseball's Color Line, with a photo of baseball and civil rights pioneer Octavius Catto, who founded the Philadelphia Pythian Base Ball Club in 1866.

Before Jackie Robinson, dozens of Black players appeared in major league and minor league games during the 19th century — before the color line was officially established in 1887. From the SABR archives: sabr.org/jackie75/seg...

Started in part by Danny Seraphine, drummer for the band Chicago, B'Ginnings lasted roughly six and a half years in its suburban spot. I don't know whether the spelling of Seraphine's name was ever corrected on the marquee.

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Oh, come on now. He's either lying or stupid. Really - what doctors dresses like this and heals people with a touch to the forehead? Sheesh.

I mean, Macy's character in "Fargo" lived in Eden Prairie and much of the filming was done around there, so that also put him in the city far more than the racist Marcy who never visited MN.

Douglas Park Will Be Renamed For Frederick Douglass, Park District Board Says: 'We Have Heard You' CHICAGO — Citing Stephen Douglas' racist past, the Park District has moved to rename Douglas Park for Black abolitionist Frederick Douglass.  In a

Chicago renamed a park for similar reasons by adding an extra "s." It started with graffiti and became a permanent change.

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The Police (Sting, Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland) played their first Chicago-area appearance on March 13, 1979. Photographer Paul Natkin captured the band on the B'Ginnings stage for some of the club's most iconic images.

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Should be an easy call to make, right? I mean, who would oppose this change? Sheesh.

So, no bird graveyards at the foot of the turbines?

Trump's $400 million ballroom project gets temporary approval from federal appeals court The construction of President Donald Trump's White House ballroom was temporarily allowed by a federal appeals court on Saturday, according to reports. The 2-1 decision was made by a three-judge panel...

Wasn't this pitched as $200 million, then it rose to $300 million, and now...

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Weird. I thought all this was settled on day one. Huh, he writes with sarcasm.

Solid way to entice people to attend that game. Can't wait.

After seeing this today, I wish I had watched "Paper Girls" on Amazon Prime when it was released. #OneAndDone

Want to learn more about the Schlitz tied houses?

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The benefit of never having prohibition!

I enjoy being out in the amazing city of Chicago and realizing I'm right by a former Schlitz tied house. Tied houses were saloons usually owned by a brewery and only sold that brewery’s beer, a practice outlawed after prohibition. When you go to a tap room today and see a "guest beer"? That's why.

Back when he was still billed as "John Cougar," John Mellencamp made his Chicago area debut at B'Ginnings on Golf Road in Schaumburg.

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Pretty sure I saw plans for a Blockbuster AND a Radio Shack reopening as well. I kid, but I wouldn't hate it if it were true.

Boy howdy, I thought the very same thing. Sheesh.

It surprised me as well that a strip mall in Schaumburg had a music venue that hosted so many amazing bands. Good golly!

Tomorrow. New episode.

"Good news. We got you booked at Poplar Creek outside of Chicago for August 10th. Two shows. 2pm and 8pm."

"That's great! Are the ads ready? We're pictured in the ads, right?"

"Uh... no."

"Well, then what is in the ads?"

"Uh... cigarettes."

from the Chicago Tribune - July 18, 1980

Edible wrestling fun!

Doing research for an upcoming episode, I discovered that a dozen or so Chicago-area clubs hosted mud wrestling once or twice a week in 1980. Huh. Just when you think you know a town.

Do any of you remember watching live mud wrestling in Chicago? What was the venue?