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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

A 22-year-old borrowed money from friends to book an unknown Athens band called R.E.M. - the show half-filled the room, the band told everyone, and Chicago got its defining rock club. Metro, at 3730 North Clark Street in Wrigleyville, opened as Cabaret Metro on 25 July 1982 and has run under founder Joe Shanahan ever since. The building came with history: the 1927 beaux-arts Swedish community center had become the Northside Auditorium Building and then Stages Music Hall - John Prine and Gang of...