Timeline

Please add events to the timeline in chronological order with exact dates where possible. Try to limit your entries to a single line. Important punk events that are not Chicago related can also be added for perspective, but should be italicized. Footnotes should be added where facts are in dispute or indisputable sources are discovered.

The Events

• ??/??/73 - New York Dolls record and release "New York Dolls."
• 03/31/74 - Punk at CBGB's begins with Television's first performance there. (4)"
• 02/??/76 - Skafish begins performing in Chicago.
• 05/??/76 - Ramones release first album, tour London later in July spawning British Punk. (6) (7)
• 05/05/77 - La Mere Vipere opens. The first punk discothèque in the whole wide world. (1) (5)
• 10/28/77 - Sex Pistols release "Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols."
• ??/??/77 - The Greenleaf opens in Rogers Park as a gay bar that plays punk rock music at night.
• 03/??/78 - The Greenleaf is renamed Oz, creating the first of what will be 3 locations.
• 06/??/78 - O'Banions opens. Along with Oz a focal point of early Chicago punk.
• 04/27/78 - La Mere Vipere burns down. (2)
• 10/??/78 - NYC's Mudd Club opens inspired by Steve Mass's visit to La Mere Vipere. (5)"
• 11/25/78 - Wax Trax Records opens.
• ??/??/79 - The Space Place opens. An important practice space with inexpensive all-ages shows.
• ??/??/79 - Neo opens. It still survives as Chicago's longest running punk/new wave/goth/alternative night club.
• 04/??/90 - Club 950 Lucky Number, aka "Club 950" and "the Lucky Number", opens.
• 05/18/80 - Ian Curtis of Joy Division hangs himself.
• 06/21/80 - Naked Raygun (as Negro Commando) plays their first show at 222 S. Morgan St. (3)
• 08/??/80 - Oz relocates to second location on Hubbard Street near O'Banions.
• 11/??/80 - the Effigies play their first show at Oz.
• 02/??/81 - Oz relocates to third location on Broadway.
• 03/11/81 - "Busted at Oz" live recording sessions completed.
• 05/09/81 - Oz closes final thrid location.
• 05/??/81 - Da releases "Dark Rooms / White Castles" single on Autumn Records
• ??/??/81 - Wax Trax Records releases Strike Under's "Immediate Action."
• ??/??/81 - Articles of Faith form.
• 02/03/82 - O'Banions closes.
• 12/??/82 - Big Black releases its first EP "Lungs."
• ??/??/82 - Space Place closes.
• 01/??/83 - Matter publishes its first issue.
• ??/??/84 - The Effigies release their first LP "For Ever Grounded" after earlier EPs and a single.
• 07/??/85 - Articles of Faith play their final show at the Cubby Bear.
• ??/??/86 - Touch and Go Records relocates to Chicago.
• ??/??/86 - Dreamerz (aka Club Dreamerz) opens in Wicker Park.
• ??/??/87 - Big Black breaks up.
• ??/??/92 - Naked Raygun breaks up.
• ??/??/93 - Dreamerz closes.
• 12/??/00 - The original Club 950 Lucky Number closes.

Footnotes

• (1) Date according to Gantry.
• (2) Date according to Gantry.
• (3) Liner notes to the Basement Screams reissue
• (4) According to Wikipedia [1]
• (5) According to Monica Lynch. Article calls LMV "first punk disco in the country". [2]
• (6) Ramones hisory page in Finland [3]
• (7) Ramones meet the Clash in 1976 [4]