# Timeline | House Music Blends Museum

Public page: HMB SITE MUSEUM/timeline.html

The Timeline page is a year-by-year Museum view of the first public Chicago timeline band.

## Page Purpose

These entries are drawn from the public Museum timeline JSON files.

Verified years, review years, source placeholders, and archive notes remain visible so the timeline can grow cleanly.

## Chicago Timeline Entries

## 1975

Verification status: review

No sourced Chicago timeline entry has been locked for this year yet.

Archive note: Review placeholder from the Museum timeline data.

## 1976

Verification status: review

No sourced Chicago timeline entry has been locked for this year yet.

Archive note: Review placeholder from the Museum timeline data.

## 1977

Verification status: verified

The Warehouse era begins.

Frankie Knuckles relocated to Chicago and The Warehouse became the key early incubator for the city's underground dance culture.

Related artist: Frankie Knuckles.

Related club: The Warehouse.

## 1978

Verification status: review

No sourced Chicago timeline entry has been locked for this year yet.

Archive note: Review placeholder from the Museum timeline data.

## 1979

Verification status: verified

Disco Demolition Night symbolized a backlash that forms part of the cultural context from which house music emerged in Chicago.

Archive note: Context row rather than a house event row.

## 1980

Verification status: review

No sourced Chicago timeline entry has been locked for this year yet.

Archive note: Review placeholder from the Museum timeline data.

## 1981

Verification status: verified

The Hot Mix 5 formed at WBMX and helped broadcast Chicago club music across the city and beyond.

Related radio: WBMX Chicago.

## 1982

Verification status: verified

The Warehouse era was closing while Smartbar opened, marking a key transition in venue geography.

Archive note: Venue geography transition entry from the Museum timeline data.

## 1983

Verification status: review

Frankie Knuckles opened The Power Plant and Ron Hardy's Music Box became increasingly central to the city's sound.

Related club: The Music Box.

Archive note: Power Plant and venue-detail sourcing should be strengthened.

## 1984

Verification status: review

Chicago house recording breakthrough.

On and On marked a decisive shift toward original Chicago house records.

Related artist: Jesse Saunders.

Related record: On and On.

Related radio: WBMX Chicago.

Archive note: Label ID remains open until Jes Say Records is promoted into the canonical entity set.

## 1985

Verification status: verified

Chicago house label expansion.

D.J. International and Dance Mania were active in the first-wave label build-out that turned local tracks into a catalog.

Related label: DJ International Records.

## 1986

Verification status: verified

Records such as Move Your Body, Can You Feel It, and No Way Back defined the sound of Chicago house internationally.

Related records: Move Your Body, Can You Feel It, No Way Back.

## 1987

Verification status: verified

Acid and crossover acceleration.

Acid Tracks, Promised Land, and ongoing radio and club circulation accelerated Chicago house's global spread.

Related radio: WBMX Chicago.

## 1988

Verification status: review

No sourced Chicago timeline entry has been locked for this year yet.

Archive note: Review placeholder from the Museum timeline data.

## 1989

Verification status: verified

Lil Louis' French Kiss showed Chicago house could become a global crossover record without losing local authorship.

Related record: French Kiss.

## Search And Reading Note

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