Jim's is a landmark Chicago institution and is at the heart of the old Maxwell Street area. Many Blues legends dined on their polish sausages and got electricity there for their amps. Across the street was where Little Walter and Jimmy Rogers first got recorded in Chicago and was where the John Lee Hooker played in the movie, Blues Brothers. Reverend Johnson runs Heritage Bluesbus Music and it contains a mini Maxwell Street Museum in progress. He owned the famous blue Bluesbus that sold records and tapes in the old market.
Tours are free and no reservations are necessary.
The exhibit features the multi-cultural history of Chicago's west side and th e immigrant neighborhood of Maxwell Street and Hull House. Tours are free with admission to CHS, and times vary daily. Rally III National Conference on Heritage Development and Cultural Tourism Tour of the new market and the old Maxwell Street area. This tour opens the Conference. Meet at 9 a.m. outside in front of the Ramada Congress Hotel at 520 South Michigan.