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Northalsted (Boystown)
The largest LGBTQ+ community centre in the Midwest — 40,000 sq ft of social services, programming, theatre, gym, and community space on…
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River North
The Old Town rowhouse where Henry Gerber founded the Society for Human Rights on 10 December 1924 — the first documented gay rights…
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Northalsted (Boystown)
The 20 art-deco steel pylons the City of Chicago installed on Halsted Street in 1998 — the first municipal recognition of a gay…
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Northalsted (Boystown)
A lakefront memorial garden and permanent sculpture on the site of the historic Belmont Rocks — Chicago's longtime gay lakefront gathering…
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River North
Chicago's historic free-speech park — an early gay gathering ground and the starting point of the nation's first Pride march, June 27, 1970.
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The Loop
The settlement house of Nobel laureate Jane Addams — whose 40-year partnership with Mary Rozet Smith the museum now tells openly. Free…
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