On a recent Friday night in a room upstairs at Gibsons, a few men told stories about nightclubs and entertainers vanished and about a world that once contained Mister Kelly’s and the writer B…
Writer Bill Zehme with some of his Johnny Carson memorabilia at his Chicago home in 2016. Zehme died last year. It can be argued that the corner of Rush and Bellevue Streets on the Near North Side is one of the busiest corners in the world, packed as it is with some of the most popular restaurants in town, places such as Hugo’s, Luxbar, Gibsons, Dublin’s and the relatively new The Bellevue, which replaced Phil Stefani’sIt will be even busier soon, as two new neighbors join the culinary crowd.
It does so with items, neatly displayed, such as photos of the many performers at the club from the 1950s into the 1970s . There are also menus, plates, a stunning Ellen Lanyon painting, an ashtray and copies of the albums recorded live there. Film screenings are among a number of public programs embellishing the Newberry exhibition which runs through July 20. There is also a cabaret evening at Winter’s Jazz Club, and on May 16 there will be a conversation between Tim Reid and, veterans of the Mister Kelly’s stage, where they were the first Black and white comedy team.Whenever he is in Chicago, Dreesen hangs out at Gibsons.
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