Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

Inside Chicago's biggest warehouse-rave venue hides a second room with its own front door. Cermak Hall is the 10,000-square-foot multi-purpose hall within Radius Chicago, the 55,000-square-foot converted steel factory at 640 West Cermak Road in East Pilsen, on the border of Chinatown just south of the Loop with direct access off I-90/94. Radius opened on 29 February 2020 - a grand-opening weekend headlined by Dillon Francis and Party Favor, weeks before the pandemic shutdown - and Cermak Hall's own opening followed with a CamelPhat date, establishing the smaller room's electronic-music credentials from day one. The hall holds roughly 1,350 to 1,800 depending on configuration, against the 3,800-4,000-capacity main room next door, and comes fully self-contained: separate entrance, its own stage, full bar and production infrastructure, sharing the building's d&b audiotechnik KSL sound system pedigree, HD LED walls, VIP mezzanine access and a matrix of green rooms. The converted-factory aesthetic - exposed steel, mural work by local and international artists, statement light fixtures - carries through both rooms. Programming splits two ways: as a standalone concert room for mid-size electronic, hip-hop and alternative bookings that do not need the main hall's scale, and as the overflow-and-companion space during festival-style takeovers when promoters run both rooms simultaneously - the Concord Music Hall and Auris Presents network behind the venue keeps the calendar dense. As an event space it hosts weddings, trade shows, product launches, corporate parties and location shoots, with the building's in-house events team and food-and-beverage packages attached. For Chicago's dance-music economy the room fills the slot between club and hangar: national-headliner production values at a capacity where the floor still feels like one crowd, five minutes from downtown and firmly inside the city's post-2020 warehouse-venue renaissance.