Pajamas, Cereal and Retro Saturday Cartoons at Chicago's Color Club
Ninety minutes of old Saturday morning cartoons in the Color Club Ballroom, with a cereal treat for anyone who turns up in pajamas.
📺 Cartoons at Color Club
📼 The Ritual They Want Back
Down In Front calls the Saturday morning cartoon block one of the weekly rituals the nineties phased out, and this screening is their attempt to bring it back. The organizers describe the reel as a handful of cartoons from the years after deregulation, but they do not publish the titles in advance, so no specific show is promised. The program runs about 90 minutes, 9:30 to 11:00. The event poster asks the room not to talk during the movie and adds that talking is the hosts' job.
🛋️ Pajamas, Bean Bags, Cereal
Color Club provides standard theater seating in the Ballroom and invites anything softer: a bean bag, a blow up couch, a park blanket, a pillow. The cereal is a dress code perk. Attendees in pajamas get a special breakfast cereal treat, a giveaway rather than a full breakfast, so eat beforehand. One limit to plan around: Color Club says the Ballroom is reachable only by stairs, so the screening is not wheelchair accessible. The ground floor Tavern is, and an accessible bathroom is available on request.
🎟️ Doors, Price, Timing
Tickets are $12.36 on DICE, which is where to confirm availability and whether door sales open. Ballroom events enter through the double doors on Hamlin. Color Club is at 4146 North Elston Avenue, a ten-minute walk from the Irving Park Blue Line stop. Doors at 9:00, first cartoon at 9:30, done by 11:00. Afterward, Bucket O' Blood is 1.7 miles south on Elston and opens at 10:00 on Saturdays, Al's #1 Italian Beef opens at 10:30, and Sulzer Regional Library stays open until 5:00.
