Chess Records pressing plant

CTL-E-0583 · Business · other · 1968–1969

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Chess Records operated its own pressing plant at its 320 East 21st Street facility after relocating there in 1968; by the 1960s the company ran a pressing plant, recording studio, and radio stations WSDM and WVON.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-064; source research type(s): business. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

Wikipedia, 'Chess Records'; Mark Guarino, 'The legacy of Chicago's Bandit Records'

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