In Chicago, Boystown — with its mix of cocktail lounges, gay bars, nightclubs, parades and drag brunches — has become a well-oiled machine for queer culture in the city. Long before Mayor Richard M.

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From left: Abhijeet, Alexandrea Diamond, Bambi Banks-Couleé, and Lucy Stoole are the cocreators of The Gaggy Awards Credit: Courtesy The Gaggy Awards Update as of 4:00 PM on Tuesday, September 26, ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Club promoters advise people to look around downtown Chicago – what's missing? The answer is that there are no African-American nightclubs, and there haven't been any for years. Some ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Dave Roberts, a DJ who was an icon in Chicago's nightlife scene for more than 40 years, died last week. Late Bar, which Roberts helped open in 2009, confirmed that he died Monday, Feb ...

But queer nightlife in Chicago didn’t begin with Towertown, and it obviously didn’t end there either. A confluence of gentrification and changing social attitudes towards queer people in post-war ...