McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge

CTL-E-0955 · Venue · lounge · unspecified

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Black-owned jazz/blues lounge; one of the great 63rd Street rooms

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PLACE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PLACE-001:PLACE-040; source research type(s): Disc jockey / jazz lounge. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

http://windycitytimes.com/2025/03/05/center-on-cottage-groves-jazz-brunch-closes-black-history-month/; https://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/c.php?g=297184&p=1983832

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