Article: Lou Rawls attends groundbreaking ceremonies for new cultural center. (Lou Rawls Theatre and Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois) (Brief Article)

Article: Groundbreaking for Chicago's Lou Rawls ...
New Pittsburgh Courier;  May 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Groundbreaking for Chicago's Lou Rawls Cultural Center begins by Chinta Strausberg ... the $4.2 million Lou Rawls Theater Cultural Center, Mayor Richard Daley ... groundbreaking of the Lou Rawls Theater Cultural Center at 47th and King Drive ...

Article: Lou Rawls continues support for 47th St. ...
Chicago Defender;  July 24, 2001 ;     453 words ...Lou Rawls continues support for 47th St. Theatre/Cultural Center World famous entertainer and Chicago native son Lou Rawls says recent reports in ... 47th Street Theatre and Cultural Center is a dream that Ald ...

Article: Singer Lou Rawls' donation pumps $100,000 into ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  May 14, 1998 ;     572 words ... ... 000 check from Lou Rawls and promises of more ... for a theater and cultural center at 47th and King ... fund-raiser with Lou Rawls coming up in the ... million, for the Lou Rawls Theater and Cultural Center being built by Tillman ...

Article: Lou Rawls to receive UNCF's Legacy Award at third ...
Chicago Defender;  June 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... recording entertainer Lou Rawls will be honored Saturday ... remember how Rawls began the Lou Rawls Parade of Stars that ... by helping to build a cultural center. He will also see a ... Wentworth Avenue renamed Lou Rawls Drive. The Legacy Award ...

Article: Lou Rawls and Royce Elliott at Drury Lane Evergreen ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  March 23, 1998 ;     636 words ...Lou Rawls and Royce Elliott at Drury ... Park The dynamic soul in Lou Rawls' voice is unmistakably ... the 47th and King Drive Cultural Center in Bronzeville, is a Chicago ... Favorite Clean Comedian. Lou Rawls, Vegas shtick and the bordello ...

Article: Lou Rawls a Chicago original
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 8, 2006 ;     399 words ...Lou Rawls, a singer with a velvet voice and an activist's heart, died Friday ... point, Ald. Dorothy Tillman (3rd) promised to name a South Side cultural center after him. When she reneged, Rawls distanced himself from the project ...

Transcript: Profile: Lou Rawls rich musical, philanthropic ...
NPR All Things Considered;  January 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Considered (NPR) 01-06-2006 Profile: Lou Rawls rich musical, philanthropic legacy Host ... 00 PM MELISSA BLOCK, host: Singer Lou Rawls died early this morning in Los Angeles ... America's coldest musical forge. Mr. LOU RAWLS (Singer-Songwriter; Philanthropist ...