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The massive PDF file was available for download on the city’s tourism website as well as the city-maintained. Under Lois Weisberg, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs published the Reader article as a brochure. When Goldberg’s children couldn’t decide what to do with the space after her death, they gave it to the city. Goldberg wound up using the space for special occassions and events before her death in 1996. In the ’80s a few restaurantuers attempted new concepts in 24 East Goethe, but none lasted more than two years. Ironically, everything but the spiral staircase entryway was subterranean. That was around the time Nancy Goldberg sold the restaurant after a 19-year run, most of that as the indisputable pinnacle of Chicago’s restaurant scene. In 1982 there was an extensive history of Maxim’s published by the Chicago Reader.

Maxim’s opening made it was a fixture of the society pages in 1963. But shouldn’t Chicago’s food fans know a little more about the place that put the Midwest on the culinary map? That and the fact that its interior is an exact replica of the legendary Parisian establishment. That’s most of what Chicagoans know of Maxim’s at this point (if this is not true of you, please share some stories in the comments). “I’m sure my father through his connections got me in,” Kogan said. But even Rick Kogan, who hosted a live show in the Maxim’s space in recent years, only has a few memories of its glory days: cocktails with co-workers after the Chicago Daily News folded and a New Year’s Eve in his twenties.
