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Live bands play until late on 2 stages at this rustic blues club with barbecue & other pub grub.!
Kingston Mines (blues club)
Nightclub in Chicago, Illinois
Kingston Mines is a blues nightclub in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois.
It is named after Kingston Mines, Illinois, and is "the oldest, continuously operating blues club in Chicago."
History
The club derived its name from the Kingston Mines Theatre Company founded by June Pyskacek in 1969 at 2356 N.
Lincoln Avenue[1] and named after Kingston Mines, Illinois, where the father of one of its actors, Jack Wallace, worked. Pyskacek asked Harry Hoch and a partner to open a café and performance space in the front of the building called the Kingston Mines Company Store.[2][3]
The company was acquired in 1972 by Lenin "Doc" Pellegrino, M.D., and renamed the Kingston Mines Café.[4] The original production of Grease was written and first premiered at the Kingston Mines Theatre in 1971 before moving to Broadway a year later.[5] The theatre company expired in 1973, while the