Chicago’s Uptown Theatre hosted more than a hundred concerts from 1975 to 1981, featuring many of the era’s biggest rock and pop stars. The book I cowrote with James A. Pierce, The Uptown: Chicago’s Endangered Movie Palace, chronicles the theater’s history, with a chapter devoted to its years as a major rock venue. (The opening… Continue reading Uptown Theatre Concerts
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The Uptown Theatre, a Palace of Dreams
CHAPTER 33 of THE COOLEST SPOT IN CHICAGO: A HISTORY OF GREEN MILL GARDENS AND THE BEGINNINGS OF UPTOWN PREVIOUS CHAPTER / TABLE OF CONTENTS / NEXT CHAPTER “It outdoes your dreams,” the advertisements declared. “IT WILL HUSH AND THRILL YOU. It throbs with beauty—lovely enough to hold the heart of a woman all her life.… Continue reading The Uptown Theatre, a Palace of Dreams