Chicago Club: UI chancellor search progresses
CHICAGO - University of Illinois trustees will meet at an exclusive Chicago club next week to interview candidates for chancellor of the Urbana campus. The board is scheduled to meet at 8 a.m. Wednesday in the Blair Room of the Chicago Club on East Van Buren Street in downtown Chicago, near the Art Institute. Founded in 1869, the private club has dining, fitness and hotel amenities for its members and their guests.Officials remain mum about the identity - and number - of finalists...
RICHARD H. BREAKER, 71
Chicago Club building engineer
Richard H. "Dick" Breaker, 71, a former longtime Elmhurst resident, whose work as a building engineer at the distinguished Chicago Club brought him into contact with the rich and famous, died Wednesday, Jan. 30, in his home in Sun City in Huntley, after a short battle with cancer. For 13 years, prior to his retirement last year, Mr. Breaker was the chief engineer in charge of the building and maintenance of the Chicago Club, 81 E. Van Buren St. A private,...
Chicago Club: Band jells at moment's notice
Renowned vibist, local sidemen cohesive in 1st set
Pair a top-notch, touring soloist with a first-rate Chicago rhythm section, and chances are good that the music-making will be fluent, at the very least. When the parties involved are visiting vibist Bobby Hutcherson and Chicagoans Willie Pickens on piano, Dana Hall on drums and Kelly Sill on bass, the odds improve considerably, for each of these players is well rehearsed in the art of forming a band at a moment's notice. The proof was plain to hear Tuesday night at...
Chicago Club: Title: POP MUSIC
BLUE NOTES
It's safe to say this Humphrey's Backstage Lounge show won't be bland Bobby "Blue" Bland, who plays 4th & B Saturday night, graces the cover of the Night&Day you currently hold in your greedy li'l hands. Ironically, the man who chiefly embodies the Bland tradition and is perhaps his most obvious musical descendant also gigs locally Saturday night, as Bobby Rush tears it up at...
Chicago Club: Club makes name out of the limelight
Getting out of the limelight was the best way for Peter Gatien's $2.5 million Chicago operation to connect with the "in" crowd.When the Limelight Chicago debuted July 31, 1985, the sloppy, New York-inspired opening night festivities garnered plenty of civil (and uncivil) condemnation, which was about the only thing the daring and diverse opening-night crowd had in common. A year has passed and night crawlers have finally stopped talking about the New...