Raise a glass to the Lager Beer Riot! It exposed a strain of bigotry that ran through the Temperance movement and opened doors to recreation.
In the 1840s, Chicago’s population expanded with the influx in immigrants. Irish escaped the Great …
Posts Tagged ‘Pocket Guide to Hell’
Chicago by Day and Night
Jun
03
Chicago Publishers Thomson and Zimmerman released Chicago by Day and Night: The Pleasure Seeker’s Guide to the Paris of America as companion to visitors to the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. It combines boosterism, a dash of morality and a …
Mid-March Wonder Weekend!
Mar
11
On March 15th prepare to experience an electro-swing cabaret unlike any other!
ROUGE!
FEATURING…
ELECTROSWING & FRENCH HOUSE by DJs
Vourteque
www.Vourteque.com
Mr. Automatic
www.Dead2MeRecords.com
LIVE MUSIC BY
The Ford Theatre Reunion
(Lexington, KY)
www.TheFordTheatreReunion.com
Environmental Encroachment
(Chicago, IL)
www.Encroach.net…
Reenactment of “Battle of Halsted Viaduct” Fun & Outlandish!
May
04
Photographs by Elizabeth Mason.
It was a late July 1877 morning in the burgeoning city of Chicago in the Fascist State of Illinois when blue-collar workers from Bridgeport and Pilsen left their streetcars, ships, trains, and factories to clash with …
