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Pepper's Lounge

CTL-PL-0032 · Place

VERIFIED evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)

Combined Graph record U-00549 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-PL-0032. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

South Side blues club

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South Side blues club

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Establishes: Pepper's Lounge was a blues club (venue) at 503 East 43rd Street on Chicago's South Side, just down the street from the Checkerboard Lounge; Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were regulars there; it was part of the cluster of more than a dozen blues venues within a one-mile radius in the 1950s and 1960s, and the source indicates that by 1982 none of that 43rd Street scene remained except Theresa's. NOT covered: a specific opening or closing year for Pepper's Lounge. (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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