The Dil Pickle Club was a Bohemian nightclub, forum, performance venue, and free-speech center in Chicago Illinois, active primarily from the mid-1910s through the early 1930s. Located in Tooker Alley
Art detail, The Dill Pickle Lending Library
Through the Hole in Wall at 858 N. State Street Down Tooker Alley to the Green Lite Over the Orange Door"
A poster advertising an Anti-War Dance at the Dill Pickle Club during 1918.
Franklin Rosemont was an American poet, artist, historian, street speaker, and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group. Over four decades, Franklin produced a body of work, of declarations, manifes
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…most storied artistic and intellectual institutions. Chicago Magazine listed it among the city's 40 greatest artistic breakthroughs. According to Franklin Rosemont, it was "far and away the best-loved, most notorious, most stimulating, and most influential little gathering place in the city's history." The club…
Franklin Rosemont speaking at Loyola University, Chicago, 2007