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Chicago teens went to dance and find connection at Medusa’s

Chicago teens went to dance and find connection at Medusa’s

Curious City · WBEZ Chicago

September 8, 202222m 9s

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Show Notes

Medusa’s was “like a community center for weirdos and freaks and everybody else in between,” say some Chicagoans who went there as teens in the 1980s and ’90s. In this week’s episode Axios Chicago reporter Monica Eng finds out how the club got started, what it was like to hang out there and why, despite its popularity, it closed its doors in 1992.