A petition has been launched to protect the now-closed nightclub The Warehouse in Chicago due to its significance as the “birthplace” of house music.
Opened in 1977 with the direction of Robert Williams, the club is known to have pioneers house music with Frankie Knuckles as its resident DJ with the genre coining the name ‘house’ after The Warehouse.
Becoming a place for the Black and Latino LGBTQ+ community, The Warehouse had to close just five years after opening with…
