In the audience 100 blues lovers roared, clapped, drank and chattered in three or four languages. This was Kingston Mines, the oldest, biggest club of its kind in Chicago, on a recent Monday night.

In the audience 100 blues lovers roared, clapped, drank and chattered in three or four languages. This was Kingston Mines, the oldest, biggest club of its kind in Chicago, on a recent Monday night.

But blues fans, in particular, should heed the lessons of “Blue Chicago.” If they don’t, they may yet love the blues to death.

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In Illinois, nearly 70% of adults have received at least one shot and the city of Chicago ... love it. But I must say - it sure felt nice. And it did validate a lot of things, you know?” Known ...

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Sugar Pie DeSanto appears on day three of the Chicago Blues Festival ... Randolph, free, all ages When I say I love Sugar Pie DeSanto, I mean it. I’d never heard of her in 1987, when her ...

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Growing up on a sharecropper’s farm in Mississippi, Chicago ... “people who love great music,” even if they have not lived through the same hardships as many of the early blues greats.