Washington Square, also known as Washington Square Park, is a public park and registered historic landmark in Chicago, Illinois. Historically known by its nickname Bughouse Square referring to mental
Washington Square Park, with the Newberry Library in the background
Washington Square Park Southeast entrance
The restored fountain at the center of the park.
Dill Pickle Club
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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
Washington Square Park (Chicago)
…popular spot for artists, writers, political radicals, and hobos to pontificate, lecture, recite poetry, rant and rave. A group of regulars formed "The Dill Pickle Club," devoted to free expression. For years Washington Square orators appointed their own honorary "king." In its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s, revolutionary…
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.