Dill Pickle Club

Dill Pickle Anti-war Dance
A poster advertising an Anti-War Dance at the Dill Pickle Club during 1918.

The Dil Pickle Club or Dill Pickle Club was once a popular Bohemian club in Chicago, Illinois between 1917 and 1935. The Dil Pickle was known as a speakeasy, cabaret and theatre and was influential during the "Chicago Renaissance" as it allowed a forum for free thinkers. It was founded and owned by Wobbly John "Jack" Jones and was frequented by popular American authors, activists and speakers.[1][2]

Through the Hole in Wall at 858 N. State Street Down Tooker Alley to the Green Lite Over the Orange Door"

The club's legacy has seen several reincarnations, including Chicago Dil Pickle Club,[3] the Dill Pickle Food Co-op,[4] Dil Pickle Press,[5] and the Dill Pickle Club of Portland, OR,[6] "an experimental forum for critiquing contemporary culture, politics and humanities."

  1. ^ "Welcome marcmoscato.com - BlueHost.com" (PDF). marcmoscato.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-09-02. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
  2. ^ "Dill Pickle Club Entrance, n.d." www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org.
  3. ^ Sasaki, Fred (21 July 2008). "Bughouse Square Debates: Saturday, July 25, 2009: The Dil Pickle Club".
  4. ^ "The Dill Pickle Food Co-op". The Dill Pickle Food Co-op.
  5. ^ "Dil Pickle Press, in the spirit of the original book company of the same name, we aim to be a free-speech forum for the uninhibited and free-thinking, including atheists, anarchists, lecturers and soapbox orators, artists, actors, playwrights, literary hopefuls, and a range of types". www.dilpicklepress.com. 18 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Dill Pickle Club". Archived from the original on 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2020-07-26.