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y day, the Garage, on the South Side of Chicago, functioned as its name would suggest. But on Sundays, the venue transformed into a pop-up dance club, where a predominantly Black crowd would boogie to jazz and R&B from early afternoon through sunset. Right in the midst of the party, crouching on the dance floor with

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