This Friday, our Bicentennial Bash was on the South Side.
ABC7 celebrated at the Sophy Hyde Park Hotel at 53rd and Dorchester, Friday.
Alan King, a co-founder of the "Chosen Few" joined the party and explained how house music was born and nurtured on the South Side. The Hiplet Ballerinas were also on hand.
Bicentennial Bash: House music in Hyde Park
In addition to house music, Chicago's South Side is known as the birthplace of Gospel music.
Bicentennial Bash: Gospel music
Historian Charles Bethea of the Chicago History Museum also joined the party to talk about the history on the South Side, including the site of the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
And despite their name, the Harlem Globetrotters were actually founded on the South Side of Chicago.
Bicentennial Bash: Harlem Globetrotters