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The Best of the Chicago Party

Name: The Best of the Chicago Party
Released: 2015-02-07

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·2015· 100 min

Director: Ken Shipley

"For fans of electronic soul with a public access aesthetic."

For 23 straight Saturday nights of 1982, The Chicago Party dance show assaulted Chicagoland UHF eyeballs with Spandex, Southside fly guys, tender tenderonies, magicians, contortionists, prismatic video gimmickry, and lip-synched singles by a rising regime of local post-disco casualties. Unfettered nightlife and outlandish humor poured out of oddball outpost The CopHerBox II and onto TV screens. Pooling business acumen with music scene prominence, James Christopher and Willie Woods opened the CopHerBox II in 1979 at 117th and Halsted on Chicago’s Southside. To promote their venture, they purchased airtime on Chicago’s WCIU-TV Channel 26 for weekly installments of The Chicago Party. Each Saturday, the club’s adult clientele filled the illuminated dance floor, providing vibrant B-roll between tapings of breakdancing magicians and Jheri curled ventriloquists, giving an audience to a rising regime of Chicago Soul heavyweights.

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Willie Woods

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James Christopher

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The Best of the Chicago Party (2015) is a comedy, documentary, music film. The film has not yet gathered many viewer ratings. The film runs 1h 40min. Check current streaming availability in the "Where to watch" section above.

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The Best of the Chicago Party runs 100 minutes (1h 40min).

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The Best of the Chicago Party was released in 2015.