The following is a selection of articles published in newspapers and trade magazines about Chicago's dance halls, ballrooms, cabarets, nightclubs, and other dancing establishments during the early twentieth century. The articles vary in perspective. Some are highly sympathetic to dance hall owners and the entertainment industry. Others take a more critical view of the industry. Several address historically significant social and cultural issues such as government regulation of the dancing industry, religious objections to the growing popularity of dancing, changing gender norms and courtship patterns among dance hall patrons, and the role of dance halls in everyday urban life.
1918
"Cabarets,"
Variety, 5 April 1918.
"'Beating' Chi's Cabaret
Law,'" Variety, 5 July 1918.
1920
"Violence Common in Chi
Cabarets," Variety, 6 August 1920.
1921
"Soak Chicago Cabarets,"
Variety, 15 April 1921.
"Cabarets" [Friar's
Inn],Variety, 23 September 1921.
"Chi Restaurants'
Favorable Decision," Variety, 14 October 1921.
1922
"Desertion of Chicago's
'Loop' Traced to Dance Places," Variety, 9 June 1922.
1925
"North Side to Get
$1,000,000 Ballroom," Chicago Evening American, 9 May
1925.
1926
"Beauty of Old Spain is
Found at the Aragon," Aragon Ballroom advertisement article
in Chicago Evening American, 15 July 1926.
"Thousands Throng Great
Aragon Ballroom," Chicago Evening American, 16 July
1926.
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