After spending a few days nursing the hangovers from their tour, Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog finally drop their much-belated, much-awaited Halloween episode†. Today, we join them on a journey to the abandoned Hideout Inn in Chicago. How did a long-standing centerpiece of the community wind up abandoned? It all started one spooky night when white supremacists arrived and cut the power – except this time, the Black guy survived to tell the story. Except Mykele Deville doesn’t seem to like it when people start asking questions about what really happened that night…
† Any overt references to Halloween and/or related festivals have been removed to avoid appropriating Latinx culture.
Links:
Mykele describes his bone-chilling experience at the hands of The Hideout
A quick rundown on the Hideout (peep the talk page for more drama)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hideout_Inn
Mykele’s followup post
The Hideout’s (rather amicable) response to being called out
Leor Galil tries to write about the story, gets told to back off
https://chicagoreader.com/music/what-the-hideout-means-to-me-now/
Book Club Chicago reports The Hideout will be closed until 2023
https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/10/31/the-hideout-will-close-until-2023-after-ex-employee-says-venue-was-a-toxic-workplace-performers-cancel-shows/
A past performer at The Hideout reacts
The thing Katie read recently in New York Mag
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/shitty-media-men-lawsuit-moira-donegan-stephen-elliott.html
Hey, didn’t we do an episode about that way back in the day?
The latest NY Mag article on Stephen Elliott / Moira Donegan (from Intel, not The Cut)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/shitty-media-men-lawsuit-moira-donegan-stephen-elliott.html
Image source: https://hideoutchicago.com/booking/
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