Green Mill Cocktail Lounge

CTL-E-0502 · Venue · other · 1907

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The Green Mill opened in 1907 at 4802 N. Broadway in Uptown and has operated as a jazz club for over a century.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001, BMI-002; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BMI-002:green-mill-cocktail-lounge, CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-018; source research type(s): venue. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

When It Was; poets.org (Academy of American Poets); Only In Your State
When It Was; Only In Your State; TikTok/Green-Mill lore
poets.org; When It Was
Only In Your State; TikTok
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mill_Cocktail_Lounge

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