Originally catering to neighborhood people, Rick’s also served in part as a gallery for local sculptors, photographers and painters, of which Riccardo himself was one. This other “Rick’s” was opened by an Italian bon vivant following Prohibition in 1934 in a former speakeasy. When Murray Burnett wrote Everybody Goes to Rick’s, later filmed as Casablanca, he could have meant Riccardo’s in Chicago. This memoriam is dedicated to Rick Kogan, whose contributions not only made this memoriam possible, but who has informed and entertainment us for years on Chicago and its nightlife
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