The Forum
...The Forum is located at 318-328 East 43rd Street (adjacent to the CTA station) in Chicago?s historic Bronzeville community. Built in 1897, The Forum includes a beautiful social and assembly hall and several oversized retail slots located adjacent to the 43rd Street Green Line Station....
https://www.theforumbronzeville.com/
The Forum (Chicago) - Wikipedia
...The Forum is a historic event venue at 318-328 E. 43rd Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood of the Grand Boulevard community area of Chicago, Illinois. Chicago alderman William Kent and his father Albert had the venue built in 1897, intending it to be a social and political meeting hall....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forum_(Chicago)
The Forum ? Build Bronzeville
...Since 1897, The Forum?s muscular presence at 43rd Street, with the ?El?, its distinctive ?Forum Hall?, and it?s six large retail slots, made it a South Side Hub for prominent performers, powerful politicians, parties and partygoers, and peddlers and patrons of all persuasions....
https://www.buildbronzeville.com/the-forum/
The South Side?s Last Remaining Jazz Landmarks - Chicago Magazine
...Once a bastion of jazz greats, many grand venues in and around Bronzeville have shuttered. These buildings hold on to some of that history. People tour the interior of Forum Hall in......
https://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/August-2017/The-South-Sides-Last-Remaining-Jazz-Landmarks/
Present ? The Forum
...We expect to begin restoration of the three retail slots that make up The Forum?s ?West Annex? in 2022. We will expand from there to restore the iconic 2nd floor Forum Hall, the hospitality spaces below the Hall, and the spaces in a ?North Annex? behind the Hall....
https://www.theforumbronzeville.com/present
Future ? The Forum
...Our vision of The Forum is as the central hub for music, history, and community in Bronzeville. A place that is alive 7 days per week every week of the year. The Forum is poised to serve, once again, as the heart of social, political, cultural and commercial life in Bronzeville....
https://www.theforumbronzeville.com/future
The Forum - Bronzeville | Chicago IL | Facebook
...The Forum - Bronzeville, Chicago, Illinois. 2,368 likes · 18 talking about this · 444 were here. Help us "Raise The Roof" and fund The Forum!...
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Forum Hall - U.S. National Park Service
...The Forum Hall in Chicago, Illinois was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. Constructed in 1897, the Forum is representative of a late nineteenth century meeting and social hall. It served as the heart of the Grand Boulevard community?s society, culture, and commerce....
https://www.nps.gov/places/forum-hall.htm
2018 Most Endangered Historic Places in Illinois The Forum
...Visit The Forum Bronzeville?s website and stay up to date with events on The Forum Bronzeville?s Facebook page: http://www.theforumbronzeville.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/TheForumBronzeville/...
https://www.landmarks.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Forum.pdf
43rd Street Bronzeville Walking Tour, Part 3: The Forum
...The Forum is best remembered as headquarters for Professor Watts? Monday, Wednesday and Friday night dance school. It was also the scene of afternoon high school hops, and unforgettably romantic spotlight dances, where an appropriate theme song would be Lil Green?s ? In the Dark.?...
http://chicagopatterns.com/43rd-street-bronzeville-walking-tour-part-3-the-forum/