Mick Jagger, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Keith Richards and Ron Wood play at Chicago's Checkerboard Lounge in 1981. | MICHAEL HALSBAND/LANDOV

L.C. Thurman, owner of the Checkerboard Lounge at 5201 S. Harper, sits in a booth that was relocated from the old Checkerboard Lounge at 423 E. 43rd Street that the Rolling Stones sat in on the night of their gig with Muddy Waters in 1981. | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times

L.C. Thurman, owner of the Checkerboard Lounge at 5201 S. Harper, sits in a booth that was relocated from the old Checkerboard Lounge at 423 E. 43rd Street that the Rolling Stones sat in on the night of their gig with Muddy Waters in 1981. | Tom Cruze~Sun-Times