Chicago After Dark
1946
Artist
Designer Unknown
DIMENSIONS
41 x 28 in. (104.1 x 71.1 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.2025.1654
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
United States
CREDIT LINE
Poster House Permanent Collection
KEYWORDS
Black, City, Entertainment, Film, Man, Woman

Chicago After Dark was another comedy short featuring Onnie “Lollypop” Jones and produced by All-American News. It follows a young attorney and his girlfriend who go after a crooked politician. While this is a lost film, what little is known of the plot does not suggest that it focused on racial issues but rather highlighted historically Black music, including jazz and bebop. Harlem as a location represented modernity in the first half of the 20th century and was often used to signify a contemporary Black space. Chicago After Dark, however, positions Chicago as a new location for Black stories. The poster shows the city’s dazzling skyline with its 1869 Water Tower (now a historic landmark). 

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