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In November 2021, news broke that filled the Chicago house-music community with pride. Hometown house legends Ten City were nominated for a Grammy for Best Dance/Electronica Album for Judgement, their first full-length studio recording since 1994.

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Many Chicago fans remembered that around the time of the group’s formation in the mid-1980s, their producer, house pioneer Marshall Jefferson, had taken the nation by storm with his 1986 Trax single “The House Music Anthem” (aka “Move Your Body”).

Jefferson is among the Chicago artists who founded house music as a genre in the early 1980s; the others include Jesse Saunders, who famously released the first house single, “On & On,” in 1984.

The origins of house music and its associated culture date back to the early-to-mid 1970s, when a group of young gay Black men began hosting house parties in the city’s South Shore neighborhood. This was even before the opening of the Warehouse—the club that gave the genre its Catholic school house - Chicago Reader HAZYD