During US Prohibition, nightclubs went underground as illegal speakeasy bars.

DOCUMENTING CHICAGO’S LAKE & HALSTED NEIGHBORHOOD: Providing random views of the local nightlife, from LAKEandHALSTED.com SUNDAY 1-27-08, 3:10 AM: EIGHT consecutive gunshots can be heard towards the beginning of the video (34 sec.), immediately followed by Shadow Bar Nightclub security running left (east). Seconds later, 12th District Police TAC Officers, already at the scene in an unmarked Chicago Police car, turn on their siren and speed to Halsted, turning north, towards the gunfire … In 1983, Jesse Saunders released what some consider the first house music track, On & On. The mid1980s also saw the emergence of New York Garage, a house music hybrid that was inspired by Levans style and sometimes eschewed the accentuated highhats of the Chicago house sound.