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More about Lord & Lady Q Billiards in Wheaton, COD, the Belushi brothers...

On the bottom of page 9 (see link below) reportedly during July 1971, Lord & Lady Q Billiards had 20 pool tables, and the proprietors were Bob Kortum and his wife Donna (reportedly both passed away years later.)

Click below, see bottom of page 9…

https://assets.azbilliards.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20000356/NBN197107.pdf

I am not certain when “Lord & Lady Q Billiards,” closed down, or why. From what I recall years ago, allegedly a naked woman fell through some ceiling tiles from above the pool tables, and that she landed on a pool table down below and was injured. Rumors were flying around Wheaton years ago that someone was operating a whore house at the pool hall, upstairs above the pool tables. If the rumors were true, it is my belief that the pool hall closed down after the woman was injured who allegedly landed on a pool table, and it may have been shut down by the Fire Marshall, or City of Wheaton, but I am not certain.

Asides from the advertisements in the student newspaper from the College of DuPage called The Courier, for the “Lord & Lady Q Billiards,” it is real interesting for me to see an advertisement for a concert with Neil Diamond and The Ides of March on page 6, for only $3.00 for non COD students, or $1.50 for COD students.

It was a great loss for people in Wheaton when John Belushi passed away.

Note: John Belushi Died From An Overdose:

Click below...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/night-john-belushi-died-book-excerpt-reveals-new-details-1204001/

It was a real shock to the system when John Belushi died. At the time John Belushi died from an overdose in Hollywood, I was also working nearby in Hollywood repairing guitars and stringed instruments for recording artists and public figures (rock stars), people struggling in local bands trying to find their fame and fortune, students from the Guitar Institute of Technology (G.I.T.), etc… Click here for details: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/02/18829401.php .

See links further below…

-Lynda Carson

(November 4, 1968)
Advertisements for “Lord & Lady Q Billiards,” in links below of The Courier

“Lord & Lady Q Billiards,” 315 S. Main St.,Wheaton.

https://dc.cod.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=courier

(October 31, 1968)

https://dc.cod.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=courier

(October 24, 1968)

https://dc.cod.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=courier

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Belushi Performance Hall (COD)

https://www.atthemac.org/rent-the-mac/belushi-performance-hall/

(January 23, 1987)
Jim Belushi returns to College of DuPage (COD) some friends from Second City, see page 6 of The Courier.

Click below…

https://dc.cod.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1586&context=courier

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For more articles about Jim Belushi in the student newspaper at COD called The Courier, click below…

https://tinyurl.com/yrt59vdu

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For articles about John Belushi in the student newspaper at COD called The Courier, click below…

https://tinyurl.com/4w7d5f88

(March 11, 1982)
COD faculty member remembers the early years of John Belushi, after John died.

See tope of page one…

And see page five editorial…

https://dc.cod.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1460&context=courier

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More About Wheaton & Lord & Lady Q Billiards

Lord & Lady Q Billiards Was Open 7 Days A Week

By Lynda Carson

In an advertisement of a so-called “Valuable Coupon” for Lord & Lady Q Billiards, in the November 14, 1968 issue of The Courier, a student newspaper of the College of DuPage, it claimed that a free coupon from America’s most beautiful family billiard room is offering this certificate entitling the bearer to one half hour of pocket billiards. Good anytime except Friday night, and Saturday. Only one certificate per table. Good until November 24. Open 7 days a week, 12 noon - 1 am.

Since Wheaton was a dry town, and there were not any bars, nor was alcohol available in the stores, Lord & Lady Q Billiards was a very busy place, with hoards of teenagers and young adults going there to score, or who may be going there in search of a good time, a game of pool, or some fun playing ping pong on one of the two ping pong tables at the pool hall. Music from the juke box was usually loudly blasting the latest hits in the pool hall, for those who were stoned and loved listening to some of their favorite music at that time.

Being open until 1 a.m., in the morning 7 days a week, the pool hall provided the local teens in Wheaton a much needed place to hang out at night. A place to go in search of a good time, or perhaps to score some drugs, to find out where the next party was at, and possibly hook-up with a date. There were hustlers there willing to take your money in a game of pool for a buck a game or more, or some people were hustlers at the ping pong tables looking for others to play for some money. Two brothers Abel and BB Macias of Wheaton who later became professional race horse jockeys, were some of the hottest ping pong players in town, and they were often looking for someone willing to challenge them at a game of ping pong for some money.

Marty Boyd used to love playing pool at the pool hall, until he had an accident at work one day, and was electrocuted while he was high up on a crane working on some electrical wires, and got electrocuted somehow. This was a terrible incident that shook many people up at the time because Marty was very popular, and was a really cool dude.

The local Wheaton Theater, Dunkin’ Donuts, Cock Robbin hamburger stand, Yankee Doodle hamburger stand, Wheaton Restaurant, the Around The Clock restaurant, Wheaton Bowl, Bob’s Big Boy restaurant with their car hops, or the nearby In-Between Store that offered bags of freshly popped popcorn, or a huge variety of candy day and night, could not compete with the Lord & Lady Q Billiards (pool hall) at the time back in the late 60s, and early 70s.

Wheaton was small enough back then that a lot of people who went to the pool hall knew each other from the different schools that they may have gone to such as Wheaton North High School, or Central High School where John and Jim Belushi, and famed journalist Bob Woodward went to years ago.

But Wheaton was very conservative and run by the Republican Party back then. Wheaton College, and Billy Graham, and televangelist Jerry Falwell and the so-called moral majority had a lot influence in Wheaton back then in those days. Indeed, Wheaton had so many churches in it that I believe at one point, it had more churches in it per square mile than just about any other city in America.

As a result, many of the cool people in Wheaton, including John and Jim Belushi, Wendy Woodward (Bob Woodward’s sister), and many others managed to escape from Wheaton, and move to some place else that was not so bigoted, right-wing, or conservative.

Wheaton was very segregated years ago, with most of the blacks and Latinos in town living on the south side of the railroad tracks running through town. If someone wanted to build some apartments in the north side of town, the locals would put up a huge fight to stop the apartment buildings from ever being built, because they were afraid that the blacks or Mexicans would move into their neighborhood.

Republicans had so much power in Wheaton years ago, that on election day if you were a Republican and worked for the City of Wheaton, you could get some time off to go and vote. But if you were a Democrat, they would not cut you any slack, and you would have to remain on the job on election day if you worked for the City Water Department, or any other branch of the city government.

Sad to say, I recall when my own family put up a huge fight years ago when someone tried to build some apartment buildings in the neighborhood where many of my relatives lived (home owners) near each other. This included my grandfather (passed away) who was wealthy, owned a lot of properties in Wheaton, and he lived with his family in a large beautiful windmill house built by himself, my dad, and his two brothers years ago. Sorry to say, my grandfather, my dad, and his two brothers have passed away through the years, but while they were alive, they and others were very successful years ago in stoping an apartment building project from happening in our neighborhood years ago.

In nearby Carol Stream which is right next door to Wheaton, and it was hard to tell that you are not in Wheaton anymore when you enter Carol Stream, it had many factories there years ago. This included Motorola, Morton Salt, Container Corporation of America, the Myercord Company (decal manufacturers), and other large factories. But they were so uptight there about drugs, that some of the factories including Motorola hired Narcs to work on the assembly lines. The Narcs would become so friendly with the people they met on the factory assembly lines, that they would be invited to peoples homes for dinner, or picnics and parties at times, before the Narc would end up arresting them for possession or sales of drugs, or pot. Some friends of mine at Motorola got busted by a Narc at the factory years ago shortly after I moved away from Wheaton, and moved to Arizona many years ago.

To say the least, I was very happy to finally escape Wheaton, Illinois, many years ago, with its freezing cold winters, conservative values, and right-wing extremist attitudes. I have not been back there since around 1983.

However, I still have some good memories from hanging out at Lord & Lady Q Billiards in Wheaton, where John and Jim Belushi also used to hang out there sometimes many years ago, including many other cool people.

Lynda Carson

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