Rick Kogan: FitzGerald’s may soon be a landmark — something Chicago music fans already knew
CHICAGO — Sady, I am not old enough to have sampled the delights of Club Ritz, with its “Come Early and Stay Until ??” in 1934 and listened to the “Gay Tunes of Jack Lyon and his Club Ritz Orchestra.” I couldn’t tell you what went on the next year at Club Whitehall where one could “Dine, Dance and Relax.” And sorry, never made it in later years to Ranucci’s Night Spot for “Fun Galore,” The Hunt Club for what was called “Xmas Music Salty Dog Style,” Club El Monaco or the Deer Lodge for a game of pool.
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