Hurricane Show Lounge

Grand Hotel Tavern

soul food eats

homes of wealthy blacks

soirees held in the Cayton apartment in the Parkway was a requirement of Chicago’s intellectual elite, both Black and progressive WhiteRichard Wright, Langston

Hughes, Paul Robeson, Claude Barnett, E. Franklin Frazier, Charles White, Willard and Archibald Motley, Poetry readings and theatrical performances, Margaret Walker , Gwendolyn Brooks, Gordon Parks, Skyloft Players

The Brass Rail

Ebenezer Baptist Church

W.E.B. DuBois meets Louis Wirth & Harold Gosnell from the University of Chicago. Katherine Durham discusses her art with Chester Himes

the “New Negro”, psychoanalysis, communism, jazz, internationalism, labor

Vendome

Le Lovin's Hi Hat

WGES in 1945–46: Al Benson came on and played Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, his audience included about seventy percent of the Black population. WOPA/WVON

Horace Cayton's Apartment

Doo Wop quartet singing on the corner under street light

58th St51st St 55th St49th St

Calumet AvenueCalumet AvenueCalumet Avenue

Garfield BlvdGrand Hotel

Parkway Community House

Hurricane Show Lounge

South Parkway

47th St

47th St 49th St

Calumet Avenue

51st St

South Parkway

Calumet Avenue

55th St 58th St

South Parkway

L TRAIN TRACKS

IVORY COAST

THE PROMENADESouth Parkway South Parkway

homes of wealthy blacks

Negro Rialto District

Negro Rialto District

Club Royal

708 Club

6232 South Prairie Avenue

Trocadero Lounge

PROVIDENT HOSPITALNew Rocket Show Lounge

49th St51st St

47th St

Prairie AvenuePrarie Avenue Prarie Avenue Prarie Avenue

55th St

Negro Rialto District

Garfield Blvd

Garfield Blvd

Bee Hive Lounge

Ambassadors

Jack L. Cooper was the first pioneer in Chicago Black Radio. He held the fort on radio from 1929 to 1961.

Bo Didley 13 yrs playing guitar on corners 1940

58th St51st St 55th St49th St

Indiana AvenueIndiana Avenue Indiana Avenue

Garfield Blvd

47th St

The Chicago Metropolitan Insurance Co.

Indiana Avenue Negro Rialto District

58th St

Michigan Garden Apartments

49th St48th St 51st StMichigan Avenue

Michigan Avenue Michigan Avenue

Garfield Blvd

47th St

Michigan Avenue

55th St

Negro Rialto District Michigan Avenue

58th St

Bacon's Casino Dance Hall

Mae’s Dress Shop

49th St 51st St 55th St

Wabash Avenue

Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue

113 Tavern

Peacocks Beauty Shop

Two Gun Pete

Ernie Henderson s Chicken Shack

47th St

Wabash Avenue Wabash Avenue

58th St

5516 S State St

Shalimar Club

Rhumboogie

Club DeLisaDuSable HS

51st St49th St

State St

Spruce's Duck Inn Lounge

47th St

State Street State Street

55th St

Negro Rialto District

Prarie Avenue

63rd St

63rd St

63rd St

Prarie Avenue

Calumet Avenue

South Parkway

63rd St

63rd St

63rd St

63rd St58th St

State Street State Street

Wabash Avenue

Indiana Avenue

L TRAIN TRACKS

L TRAIN TRACKS

L TRAIN TRACKS

L TRAIN TRACKS

L TRAIN TRACKS

L TRAIN TRACKS

L TRAIN TRACKS

Stage Lounge

Harry’s Show Lounge

Crown Propeller Lounge

Club Bagdad

Wentworth Avenue

Chicago Rock Island & Penn Central RR

Dave's Dine & Dance Cafe

Pananma Cafe

Ciro's Cocktail Lounge

George Cleveland Hall branch Chicago Public Library

Sadie Bruce's dance studio 54th and Calumet

Mary Bruce's dance studio 58th and South Parkway

Playhouse Lounge

Chess Liquor Store

Black Metropolis 1945

Kitchinette Apartments

Rent Party

Storefront Church

Dave'sCafe

Swingland Cafeacute

Century Club

Dreamland Cafe

Michigan Theater

Golden Lily

White's Emporium

It Cafe Booker Ashford's "65" Club

White City Amusement Park Ballroom

El Rado Cafe at the Garfield Hotel

Alvin Dasant Hall

Blue Heaven Ballroom

Williard Theatre

Seymour's Jazz Record Mart

Dave's Cafe

South Side Civic Telegram

Joe Louis owner

50th & Grand Blvd

5044 S Parkway

sporting, theatrical & traveling clientel

mother’s clinic, nursery school, girls’ dormitory, birth certificate bureau, relief office, selective service office, the Henry George School of Social Service, servicemen’s center, union meetings, Buddhist congregation, classes and workshops in dance, drama, art and writing

John Johnson brought out the first issue of Ebony from an office in Parkway

dance and music training Chuck Berry 1955

Illinois Jacquet 1955

6300 S. Parkway Blvd

Husk O'Hare's WolverinesBud FreemanDick and Jimmy McPartlandFrank TeschemacherDave ToughMuggsy SpanierMezz Mezzrow

dance and music training

Big Bill Hill WOPA radio

5114 S Prarie Ave

231 E 55th St

1950s

Coleman Hawkins Eddie Lockjaw Davis Chrlie Bird Parker Milt Jackson Art Blakey Jazz Mesgs Theolonious Monk

Bucket of Blood

Bucket of Blood

Ray NanceFletcher HendersonColeman HawkinsCarroll Dickerson

T Bone Walker

Joe Ziggy Johnson's Dream Revue

record label

1942-1947

5515 S. Michigan Ave.

(c.1941) Coleman HawkinsTiny Parham & Ikey Robinson with the Victor Recording Orch.Teddy WilsonAlbert AmmonsPunch Miller

309 E 55th St

343 E 55th St

black & tan

1936-1940

attends opening in Army private uniform

1934-1936

Francois's 9 piece orch broadcasts on WIND 2x wk

3 floor shows sat night

243 E Garfield Blvd

307 Garfield Blvd

John KirbyAlbert AmmonsTommy Powell and his Hi-De-Ho BoysMaxine Sullivan

5450 S Michigan Ave

rougher clientele than Dave's

317 Garfield Blvd

clientele mostly Negro

E 55th St & Michigan Ave Sammy StewartChu BerryBoyd AtkinsSid CatlettErskine TateFess Williams and his Jazz Boys

Bucket of Blood

Bucket of Blood

Bucket of Blood1941-1958

caters to gangster trade

Black & Tan Red Saunders Orchestra

Monday Morning Breakfast Dance1932

Daniel Burley, editor

disc jockey at stations WWRL and WLIB

"Everybody Goes When The Wagon Comes"

6 W Garfield Blvd

Captain Walter Dyett, bandleader and music teacher at Wendell Phillips and DuSable high schools

Nat King Cole, Dorothy Donegan, Von Freeman and Eugene Ammons.

51st St & Michigan Ave

clientele mostly Negro

51st St & Michigan Ave

burned down by the mob 1930

49th St & Michigan Ave

340 E 51st St

4801 S Michigan Ave

Special Negro Collection

Vivian G. Harsh opened 1932

Book Review and Lecture Forum

The Poetry of the Negro, at the George Cleveland Hall branch, Chicago Public Library.  "definitive anthology," co-authored by Hughes and Arna Bontemps, included works by Chicago Renaissance poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Fenton Johnson, Margaret Walker, Frank Marshall Davis, and Frank London Brown 1949

4859 S Wabash Ave

popular with the "social set"circular bar

c.1927-45 Jimmie NooneJoe WilliamsFloyd Campbell"Scoops" Carry

1933-1946

4700 S State St Louis ArmstrongJack JohnsonEthel WatersAlberta HunterCab CallowayJoe OliverHonoré DutréJohnny and Warren "Baby" DoddsFreddie KeppardDoc Cheatham