Live blues is about to return to Hyde Park. With the date drawing near for the re-opening of the Checkerboard Lounge, a classic Chicago blues establishment, members of the University and Hyde Park ...

The thrill is coming back for the storied Checkerboard Lounge. The shuttered Bronzeville hot spot, where Blues legends like Buddy Guy and Muddy Waters once performed, is reopening in Hyde Park in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The legendary blues club Checkerboard Lounge has closed in Chicago. The lounge closed after the death of its owner, L.C. Thurman. He first opened the club on 43rd Street back in 1972.