Bronzeville
The Forum
324 E. 43rd St.
Cultural/community
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Saturday
10 AM - 5 PM
Sunday
10 AM - 5 PM
DETAILS:
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. For the first three quarters of the twentieth century, The Forum stood at the heart of Black Chicago’s social, political, cultural and commercial life. The iconic Forum Hall hosted music greats from Nat ‘King’ Cole to Muddy Waters to the Jackson 5 as well as political speeches, sorority balls, union meetings, dance classes, civil rights events, and so much more. Forum Hall shut in the 1970s, a casualty of decades of government and private sector disinvestment. Today, Urban Juncture is working to restore The Forum as a hub for cultural programming, hospitality and socializing as part of its Build Bronzeville initiative.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE:
For the first time, visitors will be able to experience two distinct spaces within the historic Forum complex: - Forum Hall features the iconic hall in pre-rehabilitation condition with a full program of live music, the "Rise & Fall of the Black Metropolis" exhibit, and The Forum's historic backdrops. - Forum Cafe, the first fully rehabilitated space within the complex, will provide a glimpse of The Forum's future as a hub of Black culture in Chicago. The Cafe provides hospitality, Forum merchandise, and access to The Forum's Creative Incubator.
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