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  • Features
    Time Out Chicago / Issue 158 : Mar 6–12, 2008
    Essential Chicago

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    How well do you know your Second City innovations? From Twinkies to Tom Cruise freakouts, these Chicago premieres test your ability to store the randomest of city facts.

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    The Pump Room was the first restaurant whose strict dress code later inspired the name of an up-and-coming artist’s album. Was it:

    a) Cake’s Short Skirt Long Jacket
    b) Love Battery’s Nehru Jacket
    c) Phil Collins’s No Jacket Required
    d) Blink-182’s Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

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    Answer: c. Back when Genesis was gaining popularity in the States, a suit jacket-less Phil Collins was refused entry into the Pump Room’s elite dining room. After his solo album No Jacket Required topped the American charts in 1985, the Pump Room sent Collins a complimentary jacket as an apology.

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