Muddy Waters’ Chicago Dwelling Strikes Closer to Landmark Area

Waters’ substantial granddaughter, Chandra Cooper, now owns the property and is changing it into The MOJO Muddy Waters Condo Museum.

Cooper became “happy and delighted” that the landmarks rate identified and is honoring Waters’ musical legacy and history.

“We’re on this substantial path in direction of changing into one in every of Chicago’s landmarks, and we are looking forward to working with the blues team, town and the alderman on this venture to transfer away a fraction of his legacy for town of Chicago,” she mentioned.

After arriving in Chicago in the 1940s, Waters performed parties at night for added money and later grew to become an on a customary foundation performer in native nightclubs. Chess Recordsdata launched his first hits by 1948, and by the early 1950s his blues band had become one in every of history’s most acclaimed.

Waters’ Chicago dwelling became a gathering put for musicians, and a few — including legends love Chuck Berry and Otis Spann — lived there at one time or one other. Waters lived in the dwelling till his significant other died in 1973. He then moved to suburban Westmont, residing there till his 1983 demise.