Chicago Prohibition Tours Concept
A brief description highlighting how the Original Chicago Prohibition Tour was created, and what you can expect from your experience!
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Prohibition (PBS) Documentary - The Chicago Beer Wars
During the 1920s, rival gangs in Chicago competed with one another for control of the lucrative illegal alcohol trade. Competition led to violence, and the rise in violence led to chaos on the streets of Chicago.
Chicago Speakeasy Bar | The Drifter | Burlesque Sideshows & Tarot Cards
On this episode of On Foodable Side Dish we meet Liz Pearce, the managing partner at The Drifter, an authentic speakeasy from Chicago’s Prohibition era. The bar is hidden behind a door that poses as a decorated, wooden shelf on a wall inside a restaurant called The Green Door Tavern. Even the restaurant’s name alludes to the fact that there was a functioning bar inside of the establishment during the 1920s and 1930s. Back then, painting a restaurant's door green indicated the presence of an illicit liquor store or nightclub.
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5 Most Haunted Places in Chicago Explained by a Ghost Expert and a Historian
Chicago often ranks among the most haunted cities in the United States, but not everyone is a fan of ghost stories. When I asked Northwestern University professor and historian Bill Savage to weigh in, he said, “Chicago is haunted not by ghosts, but by the city’s neglect of the working class.” Whether you believe in the supernatural or not (I’m with Bill), most of Chicago’s enduring ghost stories contain at least a kernel of historical truth. With that in mind, here are the ten “most haunted” sites in the city.
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The Green Mill Jazz Club and Cocktail Lounge, Chicago Illinois - History & Tour
The Green Mill was originally a dance and music venue, similar to Paris' Moulin Rouge. During prohibition is was a speak easy and a favorite hangout of Al Capone. It is now a complete throwback to the roaring 20's with original period furniture and decor. It's also a premiere venue for seeing top jazz acts perform live.
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Places to see in ( Chicago - USA ) Andersonville
Places to see in ( Chicago - USA ) Andersonville
Andersonville is a neighborhood in western Edgewater / Uptown. Once a sleepy little village made up primarily of Swedish immigrants, the community is particularly known for its diversity, including a continued Swedish cultural presence led by the Swedish American Museum and other Swedish businesses. Swedish businesses include the bar Simon's Tavern, a former basement speakeasy, which serves the Swedish wine drink as glögg, and Svea restaurants. At one time there were more Swedes in Chicago than any city outside of Stockholm. Many of Andersonville's Swedes were carpenters, contractors and architects, and played a significant role in building the city.
A significant number of Middle-Eastern businesses and new influx of families with children all make this a very diverse population. Andersonville is also known for its unique commercial district, made up almost entirely of a variety of independent locally owned specialty shops, restaurants, and service providers. Andersonville does, however, have a growing number of nationally known chains including a Starbucks Coffee, McDonald's, Hair Cuttery, The UPS Store, a Subway sandwich shop and a recently opened Potbelly Sandwich Shop.
The approximate street boundaries of Andersonville, as defined by the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce, are Lawrence (4700 N) to the south, Victoria (5800 N) to the north, Ravenswood (1800 W) to the west, and Magnolia (1250 W) to the east. The heart of Andersonville’s commercial district is Clark and Berwyn (5300 N). The heart of the Andersonville commercial district is the corner of Clark St. & Berwyn Ave. (5300 N. Clark Street).
Andersonville's roots as a community extend well back into the 19th century, when immigrant Swedish farmers started moving north into what was then a distant suburb of Chicago. In the 1850s the area north of Foster and east of Clark was a large cherry orchard, and families had only begun to move into the fringes of what is now Andersonville. The neighborhood's first school, the Andersonville School, was built in 1854 at the corner of those two thoroughfares, and served as the area's primary school until 1908.
After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, wooden homes were outlawed in Chicago. Swedish immigrants, who could not afford to build homes of stone or brick, began to move outside of the city's northern limits. Swedish immigrants continued to arrive in Andersonville through the beginning of the 20th century, settling in the newly built homes surrounding Clark St. Before long, the entire commercial strip was dominated by Swedish businesses, from delis to hardware stores, shoe stores to blacksmiths, and bakeries to realty companies. The local churches, such as Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ebenezer Lutheran Church, and First Evangelical Free Church were also built by Swedes, and reflected the religious diversity of the new arrivals.
Like most other European-American ethnic groups, Swedes began to move to the suburbs during the Depression and post-war periods, and the neighborhood began to decline. Concerned about the deteriorating commercial situation, the Uptown Clark Street Business Association renewed its commitment to its Swedish heritage by renaming itself the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce. On October 17, 1964 Andersonville was rededicated in a ceremony attended by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and Illinois Governor Otto Kerner. At about the same time, the annual Swedish tradition of celebrating the summer solstice blossomed into Midsommarfest, which has since grown into one of Chicago's largest street festivals.
While some of the Swedish-owned businesses gave way to stores and restaurants owned by Koreans, Lebanese, and Cubans, many remained in Andersonville, serving the remaining second- and third-generation Swedes as well as the new arrivals to the neighborhood. In 1976, a Swedish American Museum that had been on the drawing boards for fifty years was opened to the public in a ceremony attended by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. He was also present when it later moved into larger quarters at 5211 N. Clark, where it remains today.
( Chicago - USA ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Chicago . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Chicago - USA
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Haunted Places in Chicago
From ghostly firefighters to phantom artists, the Windy City is has paranormal occurrences around every corner, which is why The Speakeasy is bringing you our list of the most haunted places in Chicago. Enjoy!
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Three Dots and Dash: Speakeasy Tiki Bar Is Chicago ULTIMATE Escape | My Go-To
Looking to escape the cold this winter? Three Dots and Dash transports you to a beach paradise serving up cocktails with a kick... that is if you can find the entrance.
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The Swill Inn: Best Bars in Chicago
Tony introduces Denny and Ryan
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Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Tour | SEE Chicago
See a piece of Chicago’s sordid past with a visit to the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, which once served as a gangster headquarters for the Capone family. Dawn discovers the secret door and hidden getaway staircase that’s still intact to this day! Her gangster tour takes a delicious turn when learns to make a cocktail once enjoyed during these illicit prohibition parties.
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Family group in Chicago, Illinois, sees gangster Al Capone boarding a train to Leavenworth Prison , United States, 1931.
Men and women stand and move around on a platform in Chicago. Gangster Al Capone along with officials arrives at the station and is seated in a train car. He tries to hide his face from the photographers present at the station.Several friends and family wave sorrowfully as he boards the train. Location: Chicago Illinois. Date: November 9, 1931.
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The Green Mill Chicago | Where to go in Chicago | WhereTV
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Al Capone once frequented this former 1920s speakeasy, which has been restored to its art deco splendor and features great local jazz musicians in a hip atmosphere.
Sunday nights feature the world-renowned Uptown Poetry Slam.
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Drinking My Way Through Chicago
Join me and my guy as we celebrate milestone anniversaries and a birthday by drinking our way around downtown Chicago. We visit some of our favorite bars, including the Coq d'Or in The Drake Hotel, the Ritz-Carlton hotel bar, NoMi, and RPM. Plus, we visit Chicago speakeasy Untitled for blues and burlesque. There's even a bonus firehouse tour ... because seriously. Who wouldn't want the opportunity to climb up in a firetruck?
The Levee, Birthplace of Chicago's Organized Crime, The Chicago Vice Tour Pt.4
Also known as the most corrupt spot on the planet was an experiment in social engineering carried out by Hinky Dink McKenna and Alderman John Bath House Coughlin. They were a pair rouge Chicago politicians who thought the citizens of Chicago would be best served by concentrating vice in one or two areas,under their control. The Levy in the video was located between 19th & Cermak and Sate & Clark streets. It was created to move a smaller contained vice district just south of the rapidly developing downtown loop area. It was moved into a much larger area also to handle the expected crowds for the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
The Levee was just like the fair was a world-class exposition home to over two hundred brothels and saloons. With names like; The House of All Nations, The Little Green House, Bed Bug Row, the Bucket of Blood, The Why Not(the city's first S&M club), The Sapho, Freidberg's Dance Hall, and the Everleigh Club. The latter was a world renown sporting house operated the Everleigh sisters. And it was pimp and gangster Big Jim Colosimo who controled this area for McKenna and Coughlin. It operated in this pretty much wide open manner for almost twenty years. Then in 1912 a lurid, scathing report was issued called The Social Evil in Chicago and it effectively blew the lid off the Levee. The report in conjunction with a larger social movement for legally controlling vice spelled the end of the Levee.
And now even the streets where it once stood are now gone replaced by a towering senior citizens apartment complex. Of course the vice wasn't eliminated by closing down the Levee it just wasn't on such public display. The Levee made Mr. Colosimo a very wealthy and powerful man who kept his control over vice. In 1910 he opened a high-class restaurant Colosimo's Cafe at 2126 S. Wabash on the eastern fringes of his empire. If you've seen HBO's Boardwalk Empire then you know that this is where Big Jim was killed under orders of Johnny Torrio his second in command. The killing said to have been carried out by Al Capone.
Big Jims cafe is a memory in its place stands (lays?) the parking lot for a 1920's style dinner theater Tommy Guns Garage. One of the few places that pay homage to Chicago's unsavory past. They are well worth checking out here is a link to their site.
At any rate just down the street at 2222 S. Wabash Torrios headquarters The 4 Duces. Home to woman, whiskey and gambling. Imported by Torrio from New York to act as bouncer was a young Al Capone. As prohibition was becoming the law of the land Torrio was eager to organize this soon to be illicit vice. Big Jim was getting older and perhaps more refined wanted no part of it. So in the end as they say he had to go. Torrio had Big Jim killed and went on to organize the distribution of booze along with the rest of crime in Chicago.
This clip is part of the series The Outfit Now & Then produced by MindsiMedia and presented on ChiTownView's YouTube station. We show a mixture of crime scenes and homes associated with different Chicago mobsters and tell a little history with each clip. On our blog we have started posting a history of this organization that for many years had an incredible amount of influence and power over the second largest city in the country. While this may have been true for most of the big cities the level of influence in Chicago and many nearby suburbs was much stronger. In the HBO series Boardwalk Empire they have a storyline that is based the Chicago outfit and it's where we start our series.
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In researching our information we have come across some great sources;
MyAlCaponeMuseum.
The Outlaw Journals.
ChicagoCrimeSceneProject.
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A viewer was looking for a map of the Levee area so I am adding a link to one.
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