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Cell Block
Cell Block, North Halsted Street, Chicago, IL, USA
Cell Block is Boystown's premier leather and preference gay club. The main front block has a twist floor where anyone can let travel and have amusing with a casual leather dress code. If you're more of a earnest leather fan, the back bar opens on Friday and Saturday nights for some more mature fun. This room has a strict leather dress code and hosts events catering to multiple fetishes such as monthly puppy patrol parties.
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Jeffery Pub
Jeffery Pub is a classic south-side institution that caters to a mixed crowd. Pitchers of brightly col
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"I have received acknowledgement of the reservation at the Sloane House for the week of the fourth, so I hope to set off a lot of fire crackers."––Tommy Adler to Leo Adams, June 10, 1949.[1]
During Leo Adams's second summer in New York City, he wrote the following cryptic alley in a letter to his friend Merle Macbain back in Chicago:
Dear Boy,
The days have been hot, and I am chock full of ennui. Everything else must be too, for I called it a day and it refused to answer advocate . Yesterday there was a strike at one of the ball parks. Business has improved along Riverside Drive, and many girls are working again. This has resulted in an improved esprit de corpse.
Be patient and some day I will tell you of my loves. (Leo Adams to Merle Macbain, July 28, 1930.)
To the casual reader, Adams may appear to be remarking innocently on the weather and punning on labor unrest at the dawn of the Wonderful Depression. The reference to Riverside park, his pun in "improved esprit de corpse," and the references to "girls" and his "loves," however, suggests another story.
George Chauncey reports that, by the 1920s, Riversid
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Chicago is a city that, as the musical of the same identify puts it, is sure to “razzle dazzle” you. A city so great, they made it twice!
America's “Second City” first made its mark on the world in 1893, when it became a destination for culture, architecture, and innovation by hosting the World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World. This extravagant event took place just two decades after the Great Chicago Blaze, which left a third of the population homeless. Over the years, architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham, who was also responsible for the famed Flatiron Building in NYC, reimagined this rough-and-tumble industrial town into the contemporary city it is today.
Ever since, Chicago has been esteemed for its world-class architecture, museums, and, more recently, a thriving food scene. In the May 2017 issue of Condé Nast Traveler, Chicago was named the “Best Restaurant City in America.” This is for good reason, as it has get a foodie paradise boasting much more than deep-dish pizza, hot dogs, and Italian beef sandwi
Chicago: so nice, you’ll ponder it’s hitting on you
For a gay ol’ day, follow the rainbow to the Midwest. In this part of the region, Chicago is “the city,” but one that largely puts aside those big-city rules. In dating terms, Chi-Town doesn’t wait two days to call you back after a hang out. Friendly and inviting, it’s the city that forgot that big cities are supposed to have an attitude.
Architecture aficionados and novices keep their eyes facing upwards to take in the grandeur. For closer-to-the-ground fun, do your duty as a tourist and head to Millennium Park. Get out your camera because you’re about to meet “The Bean” (which sounds like a horrible come on). Officially, the stunning sculpture is called Cloud Gate, but for reals, it looks prefer a big shiny bean. Try as they might, no queer can resist a reflective surface. There’s lots more to watch in and around the park, including the Art Institute of Chicago. Not just for art fags, this is an era-spanning collection that will even impress those who don’t like museums.
During nice weather, can you really hand over up a day at the beach? Though technically landlocked, Lake Michigan does a great ocean feeling. An astounding 2