Ric Riccardo opened Riccardo Restaurant and Gallery in 1934 in a small space at Rush and Hubbard Streets in Chicago. Tribune reporter Rick Kogan writes, “Ric's was in its day — from the mid-1930s to about the late 1980s — a notable gathering place for artists, writers, journalists, opera singers and stars of cinema, admen, drunks, scalawags and bon vivants. actual and potential. It was called the Montmartre of the Midwest.”
the Montmartre of the Midwest – Chicago Tribune
By Cecil Larson
