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![the RA listing: Jam City
6 Interested
Thu, 24 Sep 22:00 - 03:30
[note: i did not believe the closing time, they have a 02:00 on thursdays license like most places. but they don’t even *open* until 21:00 normally]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buauewuqjtzyritkh5rmm2oq/bafkreiezjrcopub5h34bu343bdup4oode6fupd5qi72awnqjc3pi5na2r4)
![Historical notes: Finding community across the city
Some of Chicago's earliest queer community formed around the bohemian Towertown area (near Water Tower), the downtown Levee district and at South Side drag balls and cabarets.
Notably, Finnie's Halloween Ball, a legendary multiracial drag competition, began in the 1930s on the South Side and thrived for decades, gaining wide attention through publications who wrote about the event, such as Ebony.
While North Side neighborhoods like Lakeview and Andersonville are now prominent LGBTQ+ hubs, people have connected and shared culture, art and ideas across the city.
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"More than 1,500 spectators milled around outside Chicago's Pershing Ballroom to get a glimpse of the bejeweled impersonators who arrived in limousines, taxis, Fords and even by streetcar."
- Ebony, 1953, on a Finnie's Halloween Ball in transit-friendly Woodlawn](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buauewuqjtzyritkh5rmm2oq/bafkreidl7rwjmxgzaer2ytu2gow6z6tm5c34yn6vtwdoqkvgcae6ep5wti)
![[wikipedia article for “Duel”]
The growing middle class maintained their reputation with recourse to either bringing charges of libel, or to the fast-growing print media of the early 19th century, where they could defend their honor and resolve conflicts through correspondence in newspapers.[14]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buauewuqjtzyritkh5rmm2oq/bafkreiedul7jnpbmc7zmbusvvqvsnxa6hzaylrocvazxext7qimnnw6bdm)
