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The 885 Club was a Rush Street
nightclub...885 Rush. Rush street was the nightclub district
downtown. In prohibition days it was a speakeasy operated by Julius
"Dolly" Weisberg. Around 1935 it was taken over by Joe Miller, who
was an early manager of Capone's big gambling casino in Cicero, The
Ship, back in the 1920s. The Ship became the Rock Garden in 1934
which is better known to chip collectors, but really was never the
big deal that The Ship was. It was mainly testimony about profits
from The Ship that put Capone in prison.
The 885 Club was really more of a mainstream nightclub, with fine food and dancing. It was one of the places to be on New Years Eve. I'd expect the gambling would have been in an upstairs room and unknown to most of it's patrons. By the 1950s it had deteriorated into a dumpy tavern with games of "26" at the bar. |
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| Below from Chicago Tribune 22 May 1933 | Below is file photo of Joe Miller 23 Aug 1933 | Below from Chicago Tribune 9 Jan 1935 | |||||||||
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| Front and back of a $1 885 Club token | |||||||||||
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