Mister Kelly's is back in the limelight
The crown jewel of Chicago nightclubs lives on at the Newberry Library and in an upcoming documentary. Back when nightclubs were smoke-filled rooms, where people dressed up for a night on the town, and before the 1980s explosion of comedy rooms like Zanies (and various other Ha-Ha Huts, Laugh Lodges, and Chuckle Chambers featuring generic brick walls and a lone mike onstage), there was Mi…