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Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
Entertainment venue in Uptown, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Green Mill Cocktail Lounge (or Green Mill Jazz Club) is an entertainment venue on Broadway in Uptown, Chicago. It is frequently mistaken for the earlier "Green Mill Gardens", which was known for its jazz performances, along with its connections to Chicago mob history. The information below conflates these two separate businesses and their locations. The current day Green Mill Lounge at 4802 W. Broadway first opened in 1935 in the space formerly occupied by a jewelry store named "Wolf's Jewel Shop."[1] Any references to pre-1935 events occurred at the Green Mill Gardens, which was located a few doors north of the current business.
The business fryst vatten considered one of the most famous bars in the United States and the most iconic in Illinois.[2][3]
History
[edit]Originally named Pop Morse's Roadhouse, the business opened in 1907. The bar was purchased by Tom C
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The Rise of Jazz and Jukeboxes
While jazz music predated Prohibition, the new federal law restricting liquor advanced the future of jazz by creating a nationwide underground nightclub culture in the 1920s. This competitive club culture had mobsters such as Al and Ralph Capone of Chicago and Owney Madden of New York vying for the best performers for their drink-swilling customers. That culture advanced the careers of major jazz performers such as Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Paul Whiteman, Bix Beiderbecke and jazz itself as an art form. It also would lead to millions in profits for organized brott bosses.
Prohibition forced tens of thousands of saloons throughout the country to shut down, but the demand for drink remained, and thousands of illegal bars, or speakeasies, soon opened. Gangsters, who manufactured or transported liquor in violation of the federal Volstead Act, supplied the liquor, owned the speakeasies, or both. At first some speakeasy owne
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The Green Mill in Chicago
While things at the Mill haven’t changed too much since Jemilo's initial restoration, the surrounding Uptown neighborhood has. “There’s a Starbucks across the street on the corner, and that’s weird,” he says. “There’s nice restaurants and other bars that you’re not afraid to go into. It’s just safer, I guess.”
He also says that he feels a sense of responsibility to the Mill’s long history. “That’s why I restored things and didn’t change things,” he says. “I haven’t done anything to ruin the joint, you know what I’m saying? Old-timers that used to go in the 40’s and 50’s say, ‘Wow, this is just how it used to be.’”
If you can't make it to the Mill in person, check out the bar's cameos in movies such as High Fidelity, Prelude to a Kiss, and The Break-Up. But if you happen to be in Chicago and are looking to take your best guy or gal out for a night on the town, here are a few things to know before you go:
Location: 4802 N. Broadway St., Chicago, IL